D. S. Mirsky (1890–1939)

Auteur de History of Russian Literature

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A propos de l'auteur

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 afficher plus of several books of history and literary criticism. Besides the present volume, his best-known work is The Intelligentsia of Great Britain. afficher moins

Comprend les noms: 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

Crédit image: From book cover of Gerald Stanton Smith. D. S. Mirsky: A Russian-English Life

Œuvres de D. S. Mirsky

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History of Russian Literature (1926) 266 exemplaires

Pushkin (1926) 18 exemplaires

The Intelligentsia of Great Britain (1935) 6 exemplaires

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

Russia, a social history (1984) 4 exemplaires

Lenin 2 exemplaires

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

A history of Russia (1928) 2 exemplaires

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

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

The Intelligentsia of Great Britain 1 exemplaire

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

Jane Ellen Harrison and Russia 1 exemplaire

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

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

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

The Life of the Archpriest Avvakum (1924) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 61 exemplaires

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Nom légal: Svyatopolk-Mirsky, Dmitry Petrovich
Святополк-Мирский, Дмитрий Петрович
Autres noms: Mirsky, Prince
Mirsky, Prince D. S.
Date de naissance: 1890-09-09
Date de décès: 1939-06-06
Sexe: male
Nationalité: Russia
USSR
Pays (pour la carte): Russia
Lieu de naissance: Giyovka, Kharkhiv Governorate, Russian Empire
Lieu du décès: Individual Labor Camp "Invalid," Magadan Region, Soviet Union
Lieux de résidence: St. Petersburg, Russia
London, England, UK
Petrograd, Russia
Études: Private Tutor
First Petersburg Gymnasium
St. Petersburg State University (Oriental Studies|Non-grad)
St. Petersburg State University (Classics)
Professions: literary critic
literary historian
poet
Relations: Svyatopolk-Mirsky, Petr Dmitrievich (father)
Svyatopolk-Mirskaya, Ekaterina Alekseevna (mother)
Eliot, T. S. (collaborator)
Akhmatova, Anna (collaborator)
Mandelstam, Osip (collaborator)
Organisations: 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 (tout afficher 7)
Russian Army (WWI)

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Discussions

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

Critiques

A History of Russian Literature: From Its Beginnings… par 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...… (plus d'informations)