native_name_lang death_date death_place birth_place citizenship subject ethnicity notableworks name native_name birth_date language article_title birth_name occupation
russian 1999 kensington , maryland , usa usa ekaterinodar oblast , russian empire russia russian empire soviet union united states politics russian '' escape from the future '' vladimir petrov Владимир Николаевич Петров 1915 russian vladimir nikolayevich petrov
 vladimir nikolayevich petrov writer , political dissident , factory worker , academic
vladimir nikolayevich petrov

vladimir nikolayevich petrov -lrb- 1915 in ekaterinodar oblast , russian empire -- march 17 , 1999 in kensington , maryland -rrb- was at various times an academic , philatelist , prisoner , forced laborer , political prisoner , adventurer , factory worker , chess player and writer of short stories and autobiographies .
he was at various times a russian , american , and man of no country , though he was brought up in the ussr and died in the united states .
most of the information concerning his life originates from his personal memoirs , entitled `` soviet gold '' and `` my retreat from russia '' and collected in the published work `` escape from the future '' .
