Egides-Abovin Petr Markovich

Abovin-Egides Peter Markovich

Genus. in 1917 in Kyiv. He studied at the Moscow Institute of Philosophy, Literature and History. Participant in the Great Patriotic War. Arrested in 1942. Sentenced to 7 years in labor camp. He was kept in the Vorkuta camps. Released in 1953. In 1953–1959. worked as chairman of a collective farm. Having defended his dissertation on the topic “The Problem of the Meaning of Life,” he worked as an assistant professor in the departments of philosophy at universities in Irkutsk, Bryansk, and Rostov-on-Don (RSU). In 1968, as an associate professor at the Department of Philosophy at the Russian State University, he condemned the invasion of Warsaw Pact troops into Czechoslovakia. In 1969, he resigned from the Russian State University and moved to Moscow, participated in the human rights movement. Arrested in Moscow on May 22, 1970 for the samizdat manuscript “The Only Way Out” by order of the Rostov-on-Don prosecutor’s office and sent to Rostov. Sentenced by the Rostov Regional Court on December 8, 1970 under Article 190-1 to compulsory treatment. Imprisoned in Lefortovo prison, accused of slanderous activities against the Soviet state. Referral to the Institute of Forensic Psychiatric Examination named after. V.P. Serbian. Transferred to a mental hospital named after. P.P. Kashchenko, then to the 7th regime department of the psychiatric hospital in Stolby. Released in the early 1970s. by decision of the discharge committee. He was permanently registered in a psychiatric clinic. In the 1980s emigrated to France, worked at the magazine “Poiski”. In the 1990s. gave lectures in Russia. Died 1997