Vladimir Kazimirovich Shileyko (also Shileiko, Shilejko Russian: Владимир Казимирович Шилейко; February 14, 1891 – October 5, 1930) was a Russian orientalist (assyriologist, hebraist) poet (acmeist) and translator. Shileyko family had roots in the Lithuanian part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
He was a second husband of Russian poet Anna Akhmatova.
He is known for his Russian translations of the Epic of Gilgamesh.
He died in Moscow of tuberculosis.
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