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Raisa Blokh
Raisa Noevna Blokh (russian: Раиса Ноевна Блох; 1899–1943) was a Russian poet. She emigrated to Berlin in the 1920s where she was active in the Berlin Poets' Club along with her husband Mikhail Gorlin. Blokh published her poetry in several Russian emigre literary journals including ''Sovremennye zapiski ' (russian: Современные записки, "Contemporary Papers") was a politicized literary journal published from 1920 to 1940. A group of adherents of the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party launched the journal during the Russian Civ ...'' and ''Chisla''. Mikhail and Raisa arrived in Paris from Berlin in 1934-1935. During the Nazi occupation of France in 1941, Mikhail was interned in the Pithiviers camp. Despite her best efforts, Raisa was unable to prevent her husband from being deported. He was deported by Convoy No. 6 on 17 July 1942 from Pithiviers to Auschwitz. He was 33 years old. In the spring of 1942, she accompanied young Polish Jewish wome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin
Berlin is Capital of Germany, the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and List of cities in Germany by population, by population. Its more than 3.85 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, most populous city, as measured by population within city limits having gained this status after the United Kingdom's, and thus London's, Brexit, departure from the European Union. Simultaneously, the city is one of the states of Germany, and is the List of German states by area, third smallest state in the country in terms of area. Berlin is surrounded by the state of Brandenburg, and Brandenburg's capital Potsdam is nearby. The urban area of Berlin has a population of over 4.5 million and is therefore the most populous urban area in Germany. The Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, Berlin-Brandenburg capital region has around 6.2 million inhabitants and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin Poets' Club
The Berlin Poets' Club (russian: Берлинский кружок поэтов (1928–1933) was a group of Russian émigré poets. Members included: * Mikhail Gorlin (leader of the club) * Raisa Blokh (wife of M. Gorlin) * Vladimir Korvin-Piotrovskii * Nina Korvin-Piotrovskaia * Vladimir Sirin (Nabokov) * Véra Nabokov * Yuri Ofrosimov * Sofiya Pregel * Boris Vilde * Yuri Dzhanumov * Nikolai Belotsvetov * Yevgueni Rabinovich, and some others. The club had to stop its activities in 1933 when the Nazis came to power, as many of its members were Jewish. Most of them moved to Paris, where later some of them were killed during the Holocaust. Literature * Amory Burchard: ''Klubs der russischen Dichter in Berlin 1920-1941. Institutionen des literarischen Lebens im Exil''. Ed. Otto Sagner, Munich 2001, p. 239-283 ISBN 3-87690-759-4 * Yevgenia Kannak, ''Berlinski kruzhok poetov (1928-1933)''. In: ''Russki almanakh.'' Ed. R. Guerra, S. Shakhovskaya, E. Ternovski. Paris 1981 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Gorlin
Mikhail Genrikhovich Gorlin ( rus, Михаи́л Ге́нрихович Го́рлин, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ˈɡʲenrʲɪxəvʲɪdʑ ˈɡorlʲɪn, a=Mihail Gyenrihovich Gorlin.ru.vorb.oga; 1909–1943) at zhurnal.lib.ru was a Russian emigre poet who founded the Berlin Poets' Club in 1928. He and his wife (the poet Raisa Blokh) later perished during World War II in a German concentration camp. Publications 1936. ''Puteshestviia''. Berlin: Petropolis. (Poems)References ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sovremennye Zapiski
' (russian: Современные записки, "Contemporary Papers") was a politicized literary journal published from 1920 to 1940. A group of adherents of the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party launched the journal during the Russian Civil War. Headquartered in Paris, ''Sovremennye zapiski'' published the poetry, fiction, and articles of Russian emigrants, many of them highly respected writers and philosophers. It is one of several Russian journals that published the early fiction of Vladimir Nabokov; Nabokov's novel '' Despair'' was first serialized in ''Sovremennye zapiski''. Featured titles * Vladimir Nabokov ** '' Despair'' ** '' Laughter in the Dark'' ** '' The Gift'' * Ivan Bunin ** ''Mitya's Love'' ** '' The Life of Arseniev'' * Andrei Bely ** ''The Baptized Chinaman'' * Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy ** ''Sisters'' (first part of ''The Road to Calvary'') See also * February Revolution *October Revolution *Russian diaspora The Russian diaspora is the global comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Writers
This is a list of authors who have written works of prose and poetry in the Russian language. For separate lists by literary field: *List of Russian-language novelists *List of Russian-language playwrights * List of Russian-language poets A *Alexander Ablesimov (1742–1783), opera librettist, poet, dramatist, satirist and journalist * Fyodor Abramov (1920–1983), novelist and short story writer, ''Two Winters and Three Summers'' * Grigory Adamov (1886–1945) science fiction writer, ''The Mystery of the Two Oceans'' * Georgy Adamovich (1892–1972), poet, critic, memoirist, translator *Anastasia Afanasieva (born 1982), physician, poet, writer & translator * Alexander Afanasyev (1826–1871), folklorist who recorded and published over 600 Russian folktales and fairytales, ''Russian Fairy Tales'' *Alexander Afanasyev-Chuzhbinsky (1816–1875), poet, writer, ethnographer and translator * Alexander Afinogenov (1904–1941), playwright, ''A Far Place'' *M. Ageyev (1898–1973), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1899 Births
Events January 1899 * January 1 ** Spanish rule ends in Cuba, concluding 400 years of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. ** Queens and Staten Island become administratively part of New York City. * January 2 – **Bolivia sets up a customs office in Puerto Alonso, leading to the Brazilian settlers there to declare the Republic of Acre in a revolt against Bolivian authorities. **The first part of the Jakarta Kota–Anyer Kidul railway on the island of Java is opened between Batavia Zuid ( Jakarta Kota) and Tangerang. * January 3 – Hungarian Prime Minister Dezső Bánffy fights an inconclusive duel with his bitter enemy in parliament, Horánszky Nándor. * January 4 – **U.S. President William McKinley's declaration of December 21, 1898, proclaiming a policy of benevolent assimilation of the Philippines as a United States territory, is announced in Manila by the U.S. commander, General Elwell Otis, and angers independence activists who had fought a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1943 Deaths
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 – WWII: Greek-Polish athlete and saboteur Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz is executed by the Germans at Kaisariani. * January 11 ** The United States and United Kingdom revise previously unequal treaty relationships with the Republic of China. ** Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York City. * January 13 – Anti- Nazi protests in Sofia result in 200 arrests and 36 executions. * January 14 – 24 – WWII: Casablanca Conference: Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States; Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; and Generals Charles de Gaulle and Henri Giraud of the Free French forces meet secretly at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, Morocco, to plan the Allied European strategy for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Emigrants To Germany
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev (Ukrainian SSR), Minsk (Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent ( Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata ( Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over and spanning eleven time zones. The country's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Jews
The history of the Jews in the Soviet Union is inextricably linked to much earlier expansionist policies of the Russian Empire conquering and ruling the eastern half of the European continent already before the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. "For two centuries – wrote Zvi Gitelman – millions of Jews had lived under one entity, the Russian Empire and its successor state the USSR. They had now come under the jurisdiction of fifteen states, some of which had never existed and others that had passed out of existence in 1939." Before the revolutions of 1989 which resulted in the end of communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe, a number of these now sovereign countries constituted the component republics of the Soviet Union. Armenia The history of the Jews in Armenia dates back more than 2,000 years. After Eastern Armenia came under Russian rule in the early 19th century, Jews began arriving from Poland and Iran, creating Ashkenazic and Mizrahi communities in Yerevan. More Jews ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Jews Who Died In The Holocaust
Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and people of Russia, regardless of ethnicity *Russophone, Russian-speaking person (, ''russkogovoryashchy'', ''russkoyazychny'') * Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages *Russian alphabet * Russian cuisine *Russian culture * Russian studies Russian may also refer to: * Russian dressing *''The Russians'', a book by Hedrick Smith * Russian (comics), fictional Marvel Comics supervillain from ''The Punisher'' series * Russian (solitaire), a card game * "Russians" (song), from the album ''The Dream of the Blue Turtles'' by Sting *"Russian", from the album ''Tubular Bells 2003'' by Mike Oldfield *"Russian", from the album '' '' by Caravan Palace * Nik Russian, the perpetrator of a con committed in 2002 *The South African nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
