Limonov Eduard - Russia, 22.2.1943. Real name - Eduard Veniaminovich Savenko. Born in Dzerzhinsk in the family of the NKVD commissar. In 1967 he moved to Moscow, where he joined the literary group "Concret"; in 1968 he published in samizdat a collection of poems "Kropotkin and other poems." In 1974 he emigrated, lived in New York, worked as a loader, footman, since 1979 - a professional writer.