Pyotr Vail


Pyotr Lvovich Vail was a Russian author, journalist, essayist and deputy director of Radio Liberty's Russia service.
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Life

Born in Riga 1949, he studied at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute. He moved to the United States in 1977, joining the station in the mid-1980s.
He moved to the Prague headquarters in 1995. In 1995, he reported from Chechnya.
Vail's best-known books include Genii mesta and Stikhi pro menya.
He produced several books with Alexander Genis, including Russkaya kukhnya v izgnanii and 60-e. Mir sovetskogo cheloveka.
He co-edited Iosif Brodsky: trudy i dni, about Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky, with Lev Losev. He died in a Prague hospital.