Kirill Yeskov

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In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Yuryevich and the family name is Yeskov.
Kirill Yeskov in 2006

Kirill Yuryevich Yeskov (

paleontologist. As an author he is known for The Gospel of Afranius in which he presents an atheistic interpretation of the events of the Gospel, and The Last Ringbearer in which he retells J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings from a Mordorian
point of view.

Career

In biology

Yeskov graduated from the Department of Biology of

Paleontological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences and vice-president of the Eurasian Arachnological Society. He has worked at the institute since 1988. As of 2002
he had 86 scientific publications.

Yeskov has discovered several new genera of spiders. Among seven that he discovered in 1988 is

mythology and the Russian phrase кикимора болотная (kikimora bolotnaya, "marsh kikimora") is well known in the Russian
language.) He has named a genus of linyphiid spiders Sauron after the Tolkien character.[3]

He is the author of the book History of the Earth and its lifeforms (Russian: Удивительная палеонтология: История Земли и жизни на ней, Moscow, 2008), intended as a biology textbook for high schools.

As an author

As a fiction writer, Yeskov has published several books, one of the best-known being

History is written by the victors."[4] The book was "published to acclaim" in his homeland in 1999. Translations of the book have also appeared in other European nations, but fear of the vigilant and litigious Tolkien estate has heretofore prevented its publication in English."[4] In late 2010, however, an English translation approved by Yeskov was posted on LiveJournal.[4] The American journalist Laura Miller characterised The Last Ringbearer as "a well-written, energetic adventure yarn that offers an intriguing gloss on what some critics have described as the overly simplistic morality of Tolkien's masterpiece."[4]

Other books by Yeskov include

dramatic portrayal of Jesus. In this work he presents a demythologised account of the events of the Gospels.[5]

Selected scientific publications

  • Eskov, K.Y. (1988). "Seven new monotypic genera of spiders of the family Linyphiidae (Aranei) from Siberia". Zool. Zh. 67 (5): 678–690.
  • Eskov, K.Y. (1993). "Several new linyphiid spider genera (Araneida, Linyphiidae) from the Russian Far East". Arthropoda Selecta. 2 (3): 43–60.

References

  1. ^ "Kirill Y. Eskov". Biographies. IKIP. Archived from the original on 26 April 2007.
  2. ^ World Spider Catalog - Linyphiidae
  3. Eskov, Kirill Y.
    ; Marusik, Y. M. (1995). "On the spiders from Saur Mt. range, eastern Kazakhstan (Arachnida: Araneae)". Beiträge zur Araneologie. 4 (1994): 55–94.
  4. ^ a b c d Miller, Laura (15 February 2011). "Middle-earth according to Mordor". Salon.com. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  5. S2CID 35300944
    .
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