Abstract
On 26 April 1976, the fifty-one-year-old Bogatyrev was brutally attacked by unknown persons outside the entrance to his apartment in Moscow. Found unconscious in a pool of blood, with his skull broken by some heavy metal object, he was transferred to a hospital, where he remained, most of the time without regaining consciousness, until 17 June when he died. The Times Literary Supplement, 13 August 1976. (Letter from Gleb Struve on the death of Konstantin Bogatyrev.)