Vladimir Shileyko
Russian orientalist and translator
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Vladimir Kazimirovich Shileyko (also Shileiko, Shilejko; Russian: Владимир Казимирович Шилейко; 14 February 1891 – 5 October 1930) was a Russian orientalist (assyriologist, hebraist) poet (acmeist) and translator. The Shileyko family had roots in the Lithuanian part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
He was a second husband of Russian poet Anna Akhmatova.[1]
He is known for his Russian translations of the Epic of Gilgamesh.
He died in Moscow of tuberculosis.
