Galich, Aleksandr Arkad'yevich

Galich [Gáleech] (born Ginzburg), Aleksandr Arkad'yevich (10–19–1919, Yekaterinoslav; 12–15–1977, Paris, of accidental electrocution [attributed to the CIA in the Soviet press]). Actor, director, dramatist, movie scriptwriter, composer, poet, and singer of underground songs. After Bulat Okudzhava , one of the first of the Russian “bards” to emerge during the Thaw period of the 1960s. Born into a well-to-do intellectual family, he spent World War II in an acting troupe that performed for…