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__NOTOC__ Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky (Russian language: Андрей Донатович Синявский) (8 October 1925, Moscow - 25 February 1997, Paris) was a Russian writer, dissident, gulag survivor, emigrant, Professor of Sorbonne University, magazine founder and publisher. He frequently wrote under the pseudonym Abram Tertz.
During a time of extreme censorship, Sinyavsky published both under his real name and (through samizdat, and Western publications, or tamizdat) his pseudonym. The historical Abram Tertz was a Jewish gangster from Russian past; Sinyavsky himself was not Jewish.
A protege of Boris Pasternak, Sinyavsky described the realities of Stalinism. In 1965, he was arrested, along with fellow-writer and friend Yuli Daniel, and tried in the infamous Sinyavsky-Daniel show trial ("процесс Синявского и Даниэля"). On February 14, 1966, Sinyavsky was sentenced to seven years for "anti-Soviet activity". Unprecedented in the USSR, both writers plead not guilty.
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