Dmitry Bobyshev

Dmitry Vasilyevich Bobyshev (Russian: Дми́трий Васи́льевич Бо́бышев; born 11 April 1936, Mariupol[1]) is a Soviet poet, translator and literary critic.

During the Siege of Leningrad, Bobyshev's father died, and after the war he was adopted by his stepfather.

His poems were published in samizdat (including Alexander Ginzburg's journal Syntax").

In the early 1960s, along with Joseph Brodsky, Anatoly Naiman, Yevgeny Rein, Bobyshev entered the inner circle of Anna Akhmatova.

In 1979, Bobyshev emigrated to the United States, where he taught Russian language and literature.