Alla Latynina
Russian literary critic
Alla Nikolayevna Latynina (Russian: А́лла Никола́евна Лат́ынина; born 4 July 1940) is a Russian literary critic. Her husband is the writer and poet Leonid Latynin. She is the mother of Russian writer and journalist Yulia Latynina.
Biography
Alla Nikolayevna Latynina was born on 4 July 1940 in Moscow into the family of an office worker. She graduated from the Department of Philology, Moscow University in 1963 upon which she took a post-graduate course at the Department of Philosophy, Moscow University. She defended her PhD on the subject of "Critique of the Existential Interpretation of Dostoyevsky". She received the Cand. Sc. degree in Philosophy in 1970.
Latynina has been publishing as a critic since 1969.
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