Gaito Gazdanov

Writer, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty editor from Russian Empire

Gaito Gazdanov Russian: Гайто́ Газда́нов; Iron Ossetic: Гӕздӕнты Гайто; 6 December [O.S. 23 November] 1903 – 5 December 1971) was a Russian émigré writer of Ossetian descent, who lived in Paris. Gazdanov's first stories were published in France in 1926 in Russian. His novels An Evening with Claire (1929) and The Spectre of Alexander Wolf (1948) became his most well-known works, mentioned by writers Maxim Gorky, Ivan Bunin and Vladislav Khodasevich.

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