[Discovering a masterpiece--the Russian physician and author Leonid Tsypkin (1926-82)]

The paper presents a literary work unknown to most readers. The Russian author Leonid Tsypkin (1926 - 82) is among those who were discovered and even declared literary geniuses after their dead. He never saw a line of his own fiction published. Tsypkin studied medicine in Minsk in Belarus and later practiced as a pathologist in Moscow where he obtained two PhDs and authored numerous scientific publications. In his novel "Summer in Baden-Baden", the Jew Tsypkin declares his love to the anti-Semitic author Fjodor Dostojevskij. Tsypkins' own life became more and more complicated due to anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union.