The Alexander Herzen Foundation was the first to publish accounts of the Sinyavsky-Daniel trial and the works of Andrei Amalrik, Yuli Daniel, Larisa Bogoraz, Andrei Sinyavsky, Pavel Litvinov and others in the West.
As a schoolboy, he was devoted to the cult of Stalin, and was tapped, unsuccessfully, by the KGB to report on his parents Flora and Misha Litvinov (a story that is related by the journalist David Remnick in his book Lenin's Tomb).
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His immersion in samizdat literature at this time brought him into contact with the works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Varlam Shalamov and Robert Conquest.
Pavel Florensky | Pavel Nedvěd | Pavel Litvinov | Pavel Landovský | Pavel Bure | Pavel Alexandrov | Thomas Pavel | Pavel Tsatsouline | Pavel Tonkov | Pavel Samuilovich Urysohn | Pavel Polian | Pavel Milyukov | Pavel Tretyakov | Pavel Ivanovich Melnikov | Pavel Fedotov | Pavel Curtis | Pavel Brutt | Litvínov | Pavel Zhagun | Pavel Yevgenyevich Sokolov | Pavel Yablochkov | Pavel Vrublevsky | Pavel Volya | Pavel Vinogradov | Pavel Tchelitchew | Pavel Svoboda | Pavel Suzor | Pavel Stratan | Pavel Šrut | Pavel Sheremet |
Bogoraz became well known when, on August 25, 1968, she organized seven people to protest in Red Square against the Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia at the 1968 Red Square demonstration, together with Pavel Litvinov, Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Vadim Delaunay and other protesters.
Tarusa became the home place for such famous dissident figures as Anatoly Marchenko, Larisa Bogoraz, Gleb Yakunin, Pavel Litvinov, Alexander Ginzburg, Andrey Amalrik, Sergei Kovalev, Zoya Krakhmalnikova, Lev Kopelev, and Frida Vigdorova.