D. DORRY. MOI PUT ' V IRANISTIKU [MY PATH TO IRANIAN STUDIES], Moscow: Arktika 4D Publishing House, 2012, 158 p. Monograph of the famous Iranian orientalist Dzhehangir X. Dorrie is mostly a memoir. At the same time, it contains very valuable and little-known data on the recent history of Iran, Soviet-Iranian and Soviet-Afghan relations. Many of them are published for the first time. They are especially valuable because they belong to the pen of not only a contemporary, but also a participant in many significant events in the political, scientific and cultural life of the Soviet Union, Iran and Afghanistan. The autobiographical part of the work impresses the reader with unexpected twists in the author's fate. In the Soviet period, they were characteristic and typical of the fate of millions of young people-the same age as J. R. R. Tolkien. Dorrie. But his life in adulthood would obviously have been different if he hadn't married Tatiana Shaumyan in 1961. Her grandfather, Stepan Shaumyan, was once the head of the Baku commune and was one of the twenty-six Baku commissars who were shot by the British in 1918. Therefore, she and later her family were favored by A. I. Mikoyan, a member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee. Thus, J. Dorry writes that it took personal assistance of Anastas Ivanovich to get him and his wife T. Shaumyan permission to travel to Norway (p. 64-67). One of the most significant events of scientific and cultural life, which was attended by J. R. R. Tolkien. Dorry and his monograph include the celebration of the 1100th anniversary of the birth of the great poet Rudaki , the founder of Persian-Tajik literature (pp. 53-54). The author devoted a lot of time and effort to compiling a two-volume Persian-Russian dictionary, which took ten years to complete from 1961 to 1970. The dictionary has been reprinted four times and continues to be used for over forty years. In 1984, Dorry visited Afghanistan as a member of the delegation of the USSR Wri ... Читать далее