The death of Edward Limonov, provocative writer and apostle of National Bolshevism

He was one of the strangest and atypical writers and political activists in Russia. A character full of facets, mysteries and stacked lives, talented, sulfurous and provocative, an apostle of a dangerous and fascinating national-Bolshevik ideology and the use of violence in politics. Edouard Limonov died on Tuesday in Moscow at the age of 77, after a long fight against cancer. "All the details will be released tomorrow," said his party's website, "The Other Russia."

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This bearded poet from Trotsky, an incandescent activist, gifted and charming, but a lover of gunfire and navigation in troubled waters, was born in Djerjinsk in the province of Gorki, where he had made all trades by writing verses , revealing a real talent. He then went to the capital where he entered dissident circles before leaving the country in 1974, in somewhat mysterious conditions.

We find him in New York, where he passes

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