Oleg Haslavsky
Oleg Haslavsky Олег Львович Хаславский (8 July 1948 – 19 December 2021) was a Russian poet and translator. Biography. Haslavsky was born on 8 July 1948 in Taganrog, Soviet Union. Until the age of seven, he lived with his parents in Lviv. During his school years he studied painting in Taganrog's Art Studio under the supervision of Valentina Russo. In 1964, after graduating from the secondary school nr. 10, he entered the French-German department of the faculty of foreign languages of the Taganrog State Pedagogical Institute (TGPI; now: Taganrog State Pedagogical University, TGPU). During his university studies , his views and interests (particularly regarding French poetry) were greatly appreciated by the docent Yury Felichkin who was teaching French in the pedagogical institute at the time. After Felichkin left the TGPI, Haslavsky was expelled from Taganrog's Pedagogical Institute. In 1972 he graduated from the faculty of foreign languages of Kolomna's Pedagogical Institute. From 1974 until 1986, Haslavsky worked as a clinical psychologist in Taganrog's psychiatric clinic. From 1980 until 1982, he worked in the R&D Institute of the Taganrog State Radio-technical Institute (OKB "RITM"). In 1986, he became a project director in the international research  centre "Delta-Inform". From 1990 until 1992, he lived in Bulgaria for research purposes. From 1999 until 2003, he lived in Israel. Haslavsky spoke and translated from French, English, Bulgarian, Polish, and Ukrainian. He also had a good knowledge of German and Italian. He translated various poems of François Villon, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Charles Baudelaire, Guillaume Apollinaire, Maurice Maeterlinck, Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, Cyprian Kamil Norwid, Bolesław Leśmian, Taras Shevchenko, poetry and prose of Tadeusz Borowski, as well as Edmond Rostand's comedy "Cyrano de Bergerac". In 2002 he translated Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". He never  sought publication of his poetry. The first representative publication took place only in 2008 in the Moscow Journal «Corostel. Provincial letters». Haslavsky lived and worked in Taganrog. He died there on 19 December 2021, at the age of 73.