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Vyacheslav Ivanov

Died in 1949

Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866-1949), born in Moscow, studied at the university of the city and then in Berlin, where he followed the teaching of the historian Theodor Mommsen. He then lived nearly twenty years abroad, in Germany, France and Italy, devoted to classical studies. Back in Saint Petersburg in 1905, he made his apartment, the Tower, the city's most famous literary salon. He left Soviet Russia in 1924, settled in Italy, converted to Catholicism in 1926 and died in Rome on 16 July 1949.

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