Gleb Struve papers, 1810-1998
Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Struve, Gleb, Gumilev, N. (NikolaÄ), 1886-1921, and TÍ¡Svetaeva, Marina, 1892-1941
- Abstract:
- Correspondence, speeches and writings, printed matter, and audio-visual material, relating to Russian literature and culture both in the Soviet Union and the emigration, political conditions in the Soviet Union, Soviet dissidents, and the Russian emigre community. Includes correspondence and writings of Nikolai Gumilev, Marina Tsvetaeva and other Russian writers. Available on microfilm (265 reels). Digital copies of selected items also available.
- Extent:
- 157 manuscript boxes, 26 card file boxes, 5 oversize boxes, 10 envelopes, 5 microfilm reels, 8 phonotapes, memorabilia (77.2 Linear Feet)
- Language:
- Mainly in Russian
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Gleb Struve papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Correspondence, speeches and writings, printed matter, and audio-visual material, relating to Russian literature and culture both in the Soviet Union and the emigration, political conditions in the Soviet Union, Soviet dissidents, and the Russian emigre community. Includes correspondence and writings of Nikolai Gumilev, Marina Tsvetaeva and other Russian writers. Also available on microfilm (265 reels).
- Biographical / historical:
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Date Event 1898, April 19 Born, St. Petersburg, Russia. Son of Petr Berngardovich Struve1917-1918 Serves in the Volunteer (White) Army. Spends three months as hostage in the Novorossiisk city prison1918 Escapes to Finland and later emigrates to England1921 B.A., Balliol College, Oxford1921-1932 Engages in journalism in Germany and then France. Contributes mainly to Russian emigre newspapers in Paris including Vozrozhdenie, Rossiia and Rossiia i Slavianstvo1932-1946 Lecturer and later Reader in Russian Literature, University of London1933 Translator, Ivan Bunin, The Well of Days1935 Author, Soviet Russian Literature. Revised and enlarged editions appear under somewhat different titles in 1944, 1951 and 1971. Translated into French, 1946; German, 1958 and 1964; Italian, 19751946 Author (with E.A. Moore), Practical Russian1946-1947 Visiting Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley1947-1967 Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Berkeley1950 Translator (with Mary Kriger), George Orwell's Animal Farm. Reissued in 1967 and 1971Author, Russkii evropeets: materialy dlia biografii i kharakteristiki kniazia P.B. Kozlovskogo1952 Editor, Neizdannyi Gumilev: "Otravlennaia tunika" i drugie neizdannye proizvedeniiaEditor (with G. A. Birkett), Anton Chekhov, Selected Short Stories1956 Author, Russkaia literatura v izgnanii: opyt istoricheskogo obzora russkoi zarubezhnoi literatury. Second edition, 19841957 Author, Geschichte der Sowjetliteratur1961 Editor, Boris Pasternak, SochineniiaEditor and translator, Russian Stories1962-1968 Editor, N. Gumilev, Sobranie sochinenii1964 Editor, Osip Mandel'shtam. Sobranie sochinenii v dvukh tomakh. Second edition, 19811965 Editor, Nikolai Zabolotskii, StikhotvoreniiaEditor, Anna Akhmatova, Sochineniia. Second edition, 19671967 Author, Utloe zhil'e: Izbrannye stikhi 1915-1949. Second edition, 1978Author, A Century of Russian Prose and Verse1969 Editor, Nikolai Kliuev, SochineniiaEditor, Anna Akhmatova, Rekviem1971 Hon. LLD., University of Toronto1972 Editor, Marina Tsvetaeva, Neizdannye pis'ma1978 Recipient, Berkeley Citation1979 Author, K istorii russkoi poezii 1910kh--nachala 1920kh godov1981 Author, O chetyrekh poetakh1982 Editor, Maksimilian Voloshin, Stikhotvoreniia i poemy v dvukh tomakh1985, June 4 Dies, Berkeley, California - Acquisition information:
- Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 1985.
- Physical location:
- Hoover Institution Library & Archives
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Closed. Microfilm use only. Materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
- Terms of access:
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For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Gleb Struve papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
- Location of this collection:
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Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford UniversityStanford, CA 94305-6003, US
- Contact:
- (650) 723-3563