Leonid Tsypkin

Leonid Tsypkin was born in Minsk in 1926 of Russian-Jewish parents.  Summer in Baden-Baden is the culmination of a passionate, clandestine literary vocation; a distinguished medical researcher by profession, Tsypkin never had even a measure of 'underground' fame.  Twice denied permission to leave the Soviet Union with his family, he died of a heart attack in Moscow in 1982.