Tatyana Bek


Tatyana Alexandrovna Bek was a Russian poet, literary critic and literary scholar. She was a member of the Union of Soviet Writers, and Russian PEN Center, and Secretary of the Moscow Writers' Union. She was the daughter of writer Alexander Bek.
In 1993, she signed the Letter of Forty-Two.
She died, according to the official version, from a massive heart attack, but many discussed the likelihood of suicide due to bullying by colleagues Yevgeny Rein, Mikhail Sinelnikov, Igor Shklyarevsky and literary critic Sergei Chuprinin.