Leonid S. Chekin is a Russian born writer and translator living and working in the

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. He is the author of " Northern Eurasia in

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", from Brepols (2006) a guide to 198

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and

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maps from between the eighth and ninth centuries. The volume was first issued in Russia in 1998 as "Kartografia Khrisitianskogo Srednevekovia" (Vostochnaia literature,

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) In her review of the volume in Cambridge University Press Journal, Speculum:A Journal of Medieval Studies, Natalia Lozovsky states..."The author defines his focus as the lands that medieval Western Europeans and Byzantines, following the Greco-Roman tradition, perceived as the edges of the known world"..... Chekin also penned "Mappa Mundi and Scandinavia" in the Journal for Scandinavian Studies published by the

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(1993).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chekin S., Leonid Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Russian emigrants to the United States Russian translators 20th-century American translators 21st-century American translators