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Leonid Latynin (Russian: Леонид Александрович Латы́нин; born 1938 Privolzhsk, Ivanovo Region, on the Volga near Plyos) is a Russian writer. He is the husband of literary critic Alla Latynina and the father of writer and journalist Yulia Latynina.
Leonid Latynin. Leonid Latynin was born in 1938 in the town of Privolzhsk, Ivanovo Region, on the Volga near Plyos. Among his first teachers was Pyotr Konstantinovich Sumarokov, a priest's son, who was in his turn a student of Vassily Vassilyevich Rozanov.
Hailed as a post-realist Russian writer, Leonid Latynin was trained as a philologist and has become an expert in pre-Christian Russian culture and in Russian icons. Both of these interests are apparent in his fiction, including two novels translated into English: Sleeper at Harvest Time and The Face-Maker and the Muse.
Leonid Latynin is a Russian poet. Education. Moscow State University. Career. He is a father of Russian writer and journalist Yulia Latynina. His other teachers were several hundred volumes of theological literature from his family library. In 1960-1964, Latynin studied at Moscow University"s Department of Philology.
Latynin takes his protagonist through various stages of Russian history, exposes him to pagan rites and a decadent fascination with sex, and forces him to witness multiple forms of violence and cruelty – in short, making him a living part of the national’s heritage.
Leonid Latynin, a graduate of Moscow University, was born in 1938 in the small town of Privolzhsk on the Volga. His poetry first appeared in print in 1968, and he has several collections of verse to his credit.
Leonid Latynin is the author of Sleeper at Harvest Time (4.00 avg rating, 5 ratings, 0 reviews, published 1994), Glas 21 (3.50 avg rating, 2 ratings, 1 r...
