Alexander Senkevich Explained

Alexander Senkevich
Native Name Lang:ru
Birth Name:Alexander Nikolayevich Senkevich
Birth Date:1941 2, df=yes
Birth Place:Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality:Russian
Alma Mater:Institute of Oriental Languages (Doctor of Sciences)
Occupation:Indologist, philologist, poet

Alexander Nikolayevich Senkevich (ru|link=no|Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Сенке́вич, born 1941) is a Russian Indologist, philologist, translator from Hindi, writer, and poet. He is also known as Helena Blavatsky's biographer.

Biography

Born in Moscow, USSR, Senkevich studied Indian literature at Institute of Oriental Languages. From 1970 he works for Gorky Institute of World Literature. He translated many works of eminent Hindi poets of 20th-century: Ashok Vajpeyi, Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh, Ganga Prasad Vimal, Harivanshrai Bachchan, Raghuvir Sahay, Sachchidananda Vatsyayan, Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena. In 1990 he obtained his Doktor nauk diploma. Senkevich is author of over 100 articles, many books and brochures.

Senkevich is a member of Union of Russian Writers. His first verses have been published in 1967 in Komsomolskaya Pravda. He took part in large scientific Indological conferences (1983, 1986, 1989). He is an initiator and the head of many Transhimalaya expeditions. In 1999 he became the head of "Russia-India Society."

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