D. S. Mirsky (1890–1939)

Autore di History of Russian Literature

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Sull'Autore

Prince Dmitry Svyatopolk Mirsky was born in Russia in 1890 and died in a Siberian prison camp in the late 1930s. During his lifetime, he was a soldier, a lecturer at King's College, London University, a member of the Union of Soviet Writers, a contributor to various Russian papers, and the author mostra altro of several books of history and literary criticism. Besides the present volume, his best-known work is The Intelligentsia of Great Britain. mostra meno

Comprende i nomi: D.S. Mirsky, Mirsky D.S., Dmitri Mirsky, D.S. Y MIRSKY, Dimitry S. Mirsky, Prince D. S. Mirsky, Dimitry S. Mirsky MD, Dmitri Svyatopolk Mirsky

Fonte dell'immagine: From book cover of Gerald Stanton Smith. D. S. Mirsky: A Russian-English Life

Opere di D. S. Mirsky

Popolari Recenti

History of Russian Literature (1926) 266 copie

Pushkin (1926) 18 copie

The Intelligentsia of Great Britain (1935) 6 copie

Modern Russian literature, (The world's manuals) (1974) 5 copie

Russia, a social history (1984) 4 copie

Lenin 2 copie

Contemporary Russian Literature 1881-1925. (1926) 2 copie

A history of Russia (1928) 2 copie

The letters of D.S. Mirsky to P.P. Suvchinskii, 1922-31 (1995) 1 copia

[Stikhotvoreniíà ; Stat�i o russkoˆi po�ezii (1997) 1 copia

The Intelligentsia of Great Britain 1 copia

Histoire de lá littérature russe des origines à nos jours 1 copia

Jane Ellen Harrison and Russia 1 copia

Critics Group Dialectics (Issue Number One) "Walt Whitman:Poet of American Democracy" 1 copia

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Opere correlate

Anton Chekhov's Short Stories [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.] (1979) — Collaboratore — 636 copie

Anna Karenina [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.] (1970) — Collaboratore — 134 copie

Vita dell'arciprete Avvakum scritta da lui stesso (1924) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 61 copie

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Informazioni generali

Nome legale: Svyatopolk-Mirsky, Dmitry Petrovich
Святополк-Мирский, Дмитрий Петрович
Altri nomi: Mirsky, Prince
Mirsky, Prince D. S.
Data di nascita: 1890-09-09
Data di morte: 1939-06-06
Sesso: male
Nazionalità: Russia
USSR
Nazione (per mappa): Russia
Luogo di nascita: Giyovka, Kharkhiv Governorate, Russian Empire
Luogo di morte: Individual Labor Camp "Invalid," Magadan Region, Soviet Union
Luogo di residenza: St. Petersburg, Russia
London, England, UK
Petrograd, Russia
Istruzione: Private Tutor
First Petersburg Gymnasium
St. Petersburg State University (Oriental Studies|Non-grad)
St. Petersburg State University (Classics)
Attività lavorative: literary critic
literary historian
poet
Relazioni: Svyatopolk-Mirsky, Petr Dmitrievich (father)
Svyatopolk-Mirskaya, Ekaterina Alekseevna (mother)
Eliot, T. S. (collaborator)
Akhmatova, Anna (collaborator)
Mandelstam, Osip (collaborator)
Organizzazioni: Communist Party of Great Britain
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Eurasia Movement
White Movement
King's College, University of London
Soviet Union of Writers (mostra tutto 7)
Russian Army (WWI)

Utenti

Discussioni

Alexander Ivanovich Ertel in English in Fans of Russian authors (Aprile 2015)

Recensioni

A History of Russian Literature: From Its Beginnings… di D.S. Mirsky

First published in 1926 in English, Mirsky’s book is rightly a classic in its field. It gives a complete survey of Russian literature from the earliest monastic chronicles up to and including Chekhov. Prince Mirsky (he renounced his title in his youth) was a Professor of Russian Literature at London University during the Twenties and his book developed out of the courses he gave there. More than any of the other emigres who fled the Revolution, Mirsky worked to provide a better understanding of Russian literature in English, and English literature in Russian. He published (his own) translations of contemporary English poetry into Russian, a history of Russia in English, and a history of the English intelligentsia in Russian. He retuned to Russia just as Stalin was purging the intellectuals in the early 30s, and predictably, perished in the gulag...

Read the full review on The Lectern:
http://thelectern.blogspot.com/2009/10/history-of-russian-literature-from-its.ht...… (altro)