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Identification of people in photograph. Left to right. Standing: A. Zaporozhets, N. Morozova, D. Leontiev, R. Levina, L. Bozhovich, L. Slavina, A. The Pyatorka: An Interview with several of its members. In recent decades it has become commonplace to downplay the idea that Lev Vygotsky, Alexander Luria, and Alexei Leontiev formed a troika, a three musketeers-style collaboration.

When Vygotsky arrived in Moscow, I was still conducting studies by the combined motor method with Leontiev, a former student of Chelpanov with whom I have been associated ever since. Our aim, over-ambitious in the manner characteristic of the times, was to create a new, comprehensive approach to human psychological processes. Luria, , p.

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Concerning the question of whether or not a close collaboration involving Vygotsky, Luria, and Leontiev ever existed, Yasnitsky wrote the following. Yasnitsky, , p. To cast doubt on the existence of a period during which Vygotsky, Luria, and Leontiev worked as a team, he points to absence of a corpus of jointly written papers, and only a single publication co-authored by Vygotsky and Leontiev.