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D. S. Mirsky, who had long explained Russian literature to the English-speaking world, died today in Moscow in 1989. (He had finally returned to Russia earlier that year in the wake of Gorbachev's reforms.)
(2) In Winter in Moscow by Malcolm Muggeridge (1934), a character based on Mirsky is described as "a man who's managed to be a parasite under three regimes: Aristocrat under Tzarism, Professor under capitalism, Proletarian man-of-letters under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat". " https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=5407