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Title: Gleb Struve papers
Date (inclusive): 1810-1998
Collection Number: 85018
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: Mainly in Russian
Physical Description:
157 manuscript boxes, 26 card file boxes, 5 oversize boxes, 10 envelopes, 5 microfilm reels, 8 phonotapes, memorabilia
(77.2 Linear Feet)
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.
Creator:
Struve, Gleb
Creator:
Gumilev, N. (Nikolaĭ), 1886-1921
Creator:
T͡Svetaeva, Marina, 1892-1941
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1985.
[Identification of item], Gleb Struve papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Also available on microfilm (265 reels).
| 1898, April 19 | Born, St. Petersburg, Russia. Son of Petr Berngardovich Struve |
| 1917-1918 | Serves in the Volunteer (White) Army. Spends three months as hostage in the Novorossiisk city prison |
| 1918 | Escapes to Finland and later emigrates to England |
| 1921 | B.A., Balliol College, Oxford |
| 1921-1932 | Engages in journalism in Germany and then France. Contributes mainly to Russian emigre newspapers in Paris including Vozrozhdenie, Rossiia and Rossiia i Slavianstvo |
| 1932-1946 | Lecturer and later Reader in Russian Literature, University of London |
| 1933 | Translator, Ivan Bunin, The Well of Days |
| 1935 | 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, 1975 |
| 1946 | Author (with E.A. Moore), Practical Russian |
| 1946-1947 | Visiting Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1947-1967 | Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1950 | Translator (with Mary Kriger), George Orwell's Animal Farm. Reissued in 1967 and 1971 |
| Author, Russkii evropeets: materialy dlia biografii i kharakteristiki kniazia P.B. Kozlovskogo | |
| 1952 | Editor, Neizdannyi Gumilev: "Otravlennaia tunika" i drugie neizdannye proizvedeniia |
| Editor (with G. A. Birkett), Anton Chekhov, Selected Short Stories | |
| 1956 | Author, Russkaia literatura v izgnanii: opyt istoricheskogo obzora russkoi zarubezhnoi literatury. Second edition, 1984 |
| 1957 | Author, Geschichte der Sowjetliteratur |
| 1961 | Editor, Boris Pasternak, Sochineniia |
| Editor and translator, Russian Stories | |
| 1962-1968 | Editor, N. Gumilev, Sobranie sochinenii |
| 1964 | Editor, Osip Mandel'shtam. Sobranie sochinenii v dvukh tomakh. Second edition, 1981 |
| 1965 | Editor, Nikolai Zabolotskii, Stikhotvoreniia |
| Editor, Anna Akhmatova, Sochineniia. Second edition, 1967 | |
| 1967 | Author, Utloe zhil'e: Izbrannye stikhi 1915-1949. Second edition, 1978 |
| Author, A Century of Russian Prose and Verse | |
| 1969 | Editor, Nikolai Kliuev, Sochineniia |
| Editor, Anna Akhmatova, Rekviem | |
| 1971 | Hon. LLD., University of Toronto |
| 1972 | Editor, Marina Tsvetaeva, Neizdannye pis'ma |
| 1978 | Recipient, Berkeley Citation |
| 1979 | Author, K istorii russkoi poezii 1910kh--nachala 1920kh godov |
| 1981 | Author, O chetyrekh poetakh |
| 1982 | Editor, Maksimilian Voloshin, Stikhotvoreniia i poemy v dvukh tomakh |
| 1985, June 4 | Dies, Berkeley, California |
Scope and Content of Collection
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).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russian literature
Audiotapes
Russia -- Emigration and immigration
Dissenters -- Soviet Union
Russia -- Civilization
Soviet Union -- Politics and government
Drawing