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Yeleazar Meletinsky

Russian academic (1918-2005).

Born October 22nd, 1918 in Kharkiv.

Died December 17th, 2005 at 87 years old in Moscow. [ref]

Occupations
cultural historian, historian, literary critic, literary historian, mythographer, philologist, university teacher

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. Ausonius