directed by Uldis Tirons about the life of a philosopher, and he played "the part of an Indian merchant in his friend Otar Iosseliani's film Hunting Butterflies." Piatigorsky disliked traditional academic jargon and for most of his life he upheld the principle that scholars should publish as little as possible on the grounds that publishing interrupts thinking. His lecture style was lively and distinctive: he was able to speak with considerable effect about the most abstruse and difficult concepts. Pacing back and forth, smoking, when it was still permitted, he sometimes stopped to observe his cigarette as it burned, pausing before making the next point. He was never known to consult notes. He was married four times and had five children; Galia, Max, Ilya, Veronica and Anna. He died suddenly on 25 October 2009. Works Пятигорский А. М., Рудин С. Тамильско-русский словарь. – М., 1960 (In Russian) Пятигорский А. М. Материалы по истории индийской философии. – М., 1962 (In Russian) A. Piatigorsky, D. Zilberman The Emergence of Semiotics in India (1976) Пятигорский А. М., Мамардашвили М. К. Символ и сознание. Метафизические рассуждения о сознании, символике и языке. – Иерусалим, 1982 (reprinted М., 1997) (In Russian) A. Piatigorsky Buddhist Studies: Ancient and Modern (1983) A. Piatigorsky The Buddhist philosophy of thought. – Totowa, N. J., 1984 A. Piatigorsky Mythological Deliberations. – L., 1993 Пятигорский А. М. Избранные труды. – М., 1996 (In Russian) A. Piatigorsky Who’s Afraid of Freemasons? The Phenomenon of Freemasonry. – L., 1997 A. Piatigorsky The Bhagavat Gita (Element Classic of World Spirituality Editions (1997) Пятигорский А. М. Мышление и наблюдение (Рига, 2002) (In Russian) Пятигорский А. М. Избранные труды. – М.: 2005 (In Russian) Fiction and essays Пятигорский А. М. Философия одного переулка (London, 1989, М., 1994) (In Russian) Пятигорский А. М. Вспомнишь странного человека (М., 1999) (In Russian) Пятигорский А. М. Рассказы и сны. (М., 2001) (In Russian) Пятигорский А. М. Древний человек в городе (М., 2001) (In Russian) Пятигорский А. М. Непрекращаемый разговор (М., 2004) (In Russian) See also Chancery Slavonic References External links Some in memoriam reflections in Russian Linguists from Russia 1929 births 2009 deaths Russian Jews British Jews Jewish philosophers Academics of SOAS University of London Academic staff of Moscow State University Tibetan Buddhists from Russia Writers from Moscow Soviet dissidents 20th-century linguists 20th-century Russian philosophers