Roman Davidovich Timenchik

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).

[1][2] 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").

He studied the works of Akhmatova, Gumilyov, Mandelstam, Blok, Annensky and their literary and creative environment.