мне конечно лень столько нудной поебени читать, но человеку из америки с фамилией крепс можно верить, я думаю

Born in Leningrad, Michael Kreps has studied and worked both in Russia and in the USA. He holds a degree in English Literature from Leningrad University and a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught at the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute, at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, and at Stanford and Berkeley Universities. At present he is a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Boston College.