Roman Davidovich Timenchik
Roman Davidovich Timenchik (in Russian Рома́н Дави́дович Тиме́нчик, in Latvian Romāns Timenčiks, in Hebrew, ‏רומן טימנצ'יק, born in Riga on 3 December 1945) is a Soviet and Israeli literary critic and a researcher on Russian literature of the 20th century. He studied at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Latvia. He participated in the seminars of Professor Juri Lotman at the University of Tartu, took part in the Summer School on secondary modeling systems. After graduating from university in 1967, he worked as the head of the literary section of the Riga Young Spectator's Theatre (1968-1991). From 1970 to 1989, he lectured on the history of Russian literature and theater at the Theater Faculty of the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music. In 1982 he defended his dissertation on “The Artistic Principles of Anna Akhmatova’s Pre-Revolutionary Poetry” at the University of Tartu. He has been the compiler and commentator of a number of publications on Anna Akhmatova, Ivan Bunin, Nikolay Gumilyov, Osip Mandelstam, Vladimir Nabokov, Vladimir Piast and a member of the editorial board and author of articles in the biographical dictionary "Russian Writers 1800-1917" ("Russkie pisateli 1800-1917"). From 1988 to 1991, he was a member of the