Leonid Yuzefovich

In 1981 he earned his Ph.D. (Candidate of Sciences) with his thesis on Russian diplomatic etiquette of the 15th-17th centuries. His early fiction works were occasionally published in the USSR through the late 1970s and 1980s but he mostly owed his initial popularity to the well-distributed non-fiction book The Sovereign of the Desert about Roman Ungern von Sternberg, issued in 1993. It influenced Victor Pelevin's novel Chapayev and Void, issued in 1996. He gained more popularity when in 2001 he switched to detective stories set in the late 19th century, re-inventing the fame of detective Ivan Putilin. In 2003 the Russian Booker Prize short-listed Yuzefovich's detective story Kazaroza. Yuzefovich became the main winner of the 2009 Big Book, the Russian national literary award, for his novel Cranes and Pygmies on November 26. He won the National Bestseller Literary Prize in 2016 for his book The Winter Road. Yuzefovich's books have been translated and issued in English, French, German, Italian, Mongolian, Polish, and Spanish languages. Yuzefovich's daughter Galina is a literary critic, by peers she is considered the most influential in her field.

Leonid Yuzefovich studied at PSU Faculty of Philology. The recorded working language is Russian. The field of work recorded is literature, history and television screenwriting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are detective fiction. Employment is recorded with school No.

• Name — Leonid Yuzefovich • Birth Name — Leonid Abramovich Yuzefovich • Born — 18 December 1947 • Birthplace — Moscow, Russia • Period — 1970s–present • Genre — Crime fiction