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George Grebenstchikoff
George Dmitrievich Grebenstchikoff (; 6 May 4 April Old Style1883 – 11 January 1964) was a writer and professor of Russian literature. Personal life Grebenstchikoff was born in Nikolayevsky Rudnik, Tomsk Governorate, Russian Empire (now in East Kazakhstan Province, Kazakhstan). George's mother, Elena Petrovna Grebenstchikoff, encouraged him to learn to read and write at an early age, an uncommon skill in a typical family of miners. He began writing poetry at the age of nine, but his father, Dmitri Lukich Grebenstchikoff, had taken George with him into the lumber industry, thus curtailing any further elementary education. While serving in the Imperial Russian Army during the First World War, he met Tatiana Denisovna Stadnik. Tatiana was serving as a nurse with the Red Cross. She was former ballerina with the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. Career At the age of twelve, George left his hometown for the nearby city of Semipalatinsk to earn a living through a variety o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Churaevka
The Russian Village Historic District, also known as Churaevka (), is a historic summer colony founded by George Grebenstchikoff and Ilya Tolstoy in Southbury, Connecticut. The colony was founded in the 1920s by Russian emigres, and retains distinctive Russian touches in the architecture of its houses, as well as a small chapel designed by Nicholas Roerich. The colony was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. Description and history The area now known as Churaevka or Russian Village in southern Southbury first came to the attention of the Russian emigre Ilya Tolstoy, son of novelist Leo Tolstoy, in the 1920s, when he visited a translator for one of his books. Drawn to the area, whose rolling hills resembled those of his Russian birthplace, he bought some land and built a small ''dacha'' (which still stands). The idea of an artistic summer colony was developed by Tolstoy's friend and writer George Grebenstchikoff, who purchased some of Tolstoy's land and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Roerich
Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh (), better known as Nicholas Roerich (; October 9, 1874 – December 13, 1947), was a Russian painter, writer, archaeologist, theosophist, philosopher, and public figure. In his youth he was influenced by Russian Symbolism, a movement in Russian society centered on the spiritual. He was interested in hypnosis and other spiritual practices and his paintings are said to have hypnotic expression. Born in Saint Petersburg, to a well-to-do Baltic German father and to a Russian mother, Roerich lived in various places in the world until his death in Naggar, India. Trained as an artist and a lawyer, his main interests were literature, philosophy, archaeology, and especially art. Roerich was a dedicated activist for the cause of preserving art and architecture during times of war. He was nominated several times to the longlist for the Nobel Peace Prize. The so-called Roerich Pact (for the protection of cultural objects) was signed into law by the Unit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1940 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1940. Events *January – The English literary magazine ''Horizon'' first appears in London, with Cyril Connolly, Peter Watson and Stephen Spender contributing. *February – The Canadian writer Robertson Davies leaves the Old Vic repertory company in the U.K. *March 11 – Ed Ricketts, John Steinbeck and six others leave Monterey for the Gulf of California on a marine invertebrate collecting expedition. *April – Máirtín Ó Cadhain is interned by the Irish government at Curragh Camp, as a member of the Irish Republican Army. *May 14 – The Battle of the Netherlands ends with the surrender of the main Dutch forces to Nazi German invaders. This evening, the gay Dutch Jewish writer Jacob Hiegentlich takes poison, dying four days later aged 33. *June 5 – The English novelist J. B. Priestley broadcasts his first Sunday evening radio ''Postscript'', "An excursion to hell", on the BBC Home Servi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1924 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1924. Events *January **Writer Miguel de Unamuno is dismissed for the first time from his university posts by the Spanish dictator General Miguel Primo de Rivera and goes into exile on Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands. ** Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln ("Max") Schuster establish the New York City publisher Simon & Schuster, which initially specializes in crossword puzzle books. *January 15 – The world's first radio play, ''Danger'' by Richard Hughes, is broadcast by the B.B.C. from its London studios. *February 2 – A largely rewritten version of Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter Hackett's 1914 farce '' It Pays to Advertise'' opens in a production by actor-manager Tom Walls, at the Aldwych Theatre in London. It runs until 10 July 1925, a total of 598 performances, as the first in a sequence of twelve Aldwych farces. *March 3 – Seán O'Casey's drama ''Juno and the Paycock'' opens at the Abbey T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1927 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1927. Events *January – The Books Kinokuniya (紀伊國屋書店) bookstore business is established in Tokyo. *February 4 – Gertrude Stein is honored by the ''Académie des femmes'', an informal gathering for woman writers, founded by the expatriate American Natalie Clifford Barney starts at her Paris ''salon''. Others honored include Colette, Anna Wickham, Rachilde, Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and posthumously, Renée Vivien. *February 24 – The new John Golden Theatre ''(Theatre Masque)'' opens in New York City at 252 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in midtown Manhattan. *May 5 – Virginia Woolf's stream of consciousness novel ''To the Lighthouse'' is published by Hogarth Press in London. A second impression follows in June. It is seen as a landmark of high modernism, *June 29 – T. S. Eliot, hitherto Unitarian, is baptised into the Church of England at Finstock. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1922 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1922. Events This is a significant year for high modernism in literature. *January – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's modernist short story "In a Grove" (藪の中, ''Yabu no naka'') is published in the Japanese magazine ''Shinchō''. *January 24 – ''Façade (entertainment), Façade – An Entertainment'', poems by Edith Sitwell recited over an instrumental accompaniment by William Walton, are first performed, privately in London. *January 27 – Franz Kafka begins intensive work on his novel The Castle (novel), ''The Castle (Das Schloss)'' at the mountain resort of Spindlermühle, ceasing around early September in mid-sentence. *February 2 **In a "savage creative storm" of less than three weeks beginning today at Château de Muzot in Switzerland, Rainer Maria Rilke writes his ''Sonnets to Orpheus (Die Sonette an Orpheus)'' and completes his ''Duino Elegies (Duineser Elegien)''. **The Modernist literature, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1917 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1917. Events *January **Francis Picabia produces the first issue of the Dada periodical '' 391'' in Barcelona. **Philosopher Hu Shih, the main advocate of replacing scholarly language with the vernacular in Chinese literature, publishes an article in the magazine ''New Youth (Xin Qingnian)'', "A Preliminary Discussion of Literature Reform", offering eight guidelines for writers. **J. R. R. Tolkien, on medical leave from the British Army at Great Haywood, begins ''The Book of Lost Tales'' (the first version of ''The Silmarillion''), starting with the " Fall of Gondolin". This first chronicles Tolkien's mythopoeic Middle-earth ''legendarium'' in prose. *February 4 or 5 – The English writer Hugh Kingsmill is captured in action in France. *February 16 – The publisher Boni & Liveright is founded in New York City by Horace Liveright with Albert Boni, and initiates the "Modern Library" imprint. *Apr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1916 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary persons, events and publications of 1916. Events *January ** ''The Journal of Negro History'' is founded by Carter G. Woodson, father of "Black History" and "Negro History Week" in the United States. **Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's short story '' The Nose'' is published in a student magazine. *March 1 – The National Library of Wales completes its transfer to purpose-built premises in Aberystwyth. *March 22 – J. R. R. Tolkien and Edith Bratt marry at St Mary Immaculate Roman Catholic Church, Warwick, England. They will serve as inspiration for the fictional characters Beren and Lúthien. Tolkien leaves for military service in France at the beginning of June. *March 30 – Don Marquis introduces the characters Archy and Mehitabel in "The Sun Dial" column in ''The Evening Sun'' (New York City). Archy is a poetry-writing cockroach unable to operate the typewriter shift key; Mehitabel is a cat. *April–June – Katherine Mansfield ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1915 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary persons, events and publications of 1915. Events *January 13 – "Reminiscences of Sergeant Michael Cassidy", the first known story by Captain H. C. McNeile, Royal Engineers, writing as "Sapper", begins in the ''Daily Mail'' (London). *March – Ford Madox Ford's novel '' The Good Soldier: A tale of passion'' is published by John Lane – The Bodley Head in London under this title, and under the author's original name, Ford Madox Hueffer, although he had intended it to be called ''The Saddest Story''. *March 26 – Virginia Woolf's first novel, '' The Voyage Out'', is published in London by the firm of her half-brother, Gerald Duckworth. *March 26 – The Geração de Orpheu launch the short-lived magazine ''Orpheu'', introducing literary modernism to Portugal. *April 6 – The American Ezra Pound's poetry collection ''Cathay'', "translations... for the most part of the Chinese of Rihaku, from the notes of the late Ernest F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1913 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1913. Events *January – Acmeist poetry, with roots back to 1909, is officially born as a reaction to Russian Futurism. Manifestos are printed in the journal ''Apollon'' by Nikolay Gumilyov and Sergey Gorodetsky, with illustrative works by both, and by Anna Akhmatova, Vladimir Narbut, and Osip Mandelstam — the last with "Hagia Sophia". *January 1 – The German National Library is founded in Leipzig. *January 8 – Harold Monro officially opens the Poetry Bookshop in London (opened for business November 1912), which becomes a noted international literary meeting-place. *January 24 – Franz Kafka stops working on his novel ''Amerika'', which he never finishes. *March 24 – The new Palace Theatre opens at 1564 Broadway (at West 47th Street) in midtown Manhattan, New York City. *April 5 – Serialization of the adventures of Gaston Leroux's character Chéri-Bibi begins in ''Le Matin'' (France) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lakeland, Florida
Lakeland is a city in Polk County, Florida, United States. Located along Interstate 4, I-4 east of Tampa and southwest of Orlando, Florida, Orlando, it is the List of municipalities in Florida, most populous city in Polk County. As of the 2020 U.S. Census Bureau release, the city had a population of 112,641. Lakeland is a principal city of the Lakeland–Winter Haven metropolitan area, Lakeland–Winter Haven Metropolitan Statistical Area. Lakeland is situated among several lakes including Lake Morton downtown and is sometimes locally referred to by the nickname "Swan City" due to its sizeable population of swans, all of whom are descendants of two mute swans given to Lakeland by Queen Elizabeth II in 1957. Lakeland is home to several colleges and universities. Lakeland Linder International Airport is in Lakeland as is the corporate headquarters of Publix, a supermarket chain. European-American settlers arrived in Lakeland from Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and South Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergey Konenkov
Sergey Timofeyevich Konenkov, also Sergei Konyonkov (; – 9 December 1971) was a Russian and Soviet Union, Soviet sculptor. He was often called "the Russian Auguste Rodin, Rodin". Early life Konenkov was born in a peasant family, in a village of Karakovichi in Smolensk Oblast, Smolensk province. Sergey studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, graduating in 1897,''The Uncommon Vision of Sergei Konenkov.'' p. 5. and at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. His diploma work at the Academy - a huge clay statue of Samson tearing the chains - broke most existing laws of academic art and put him at odds with his teachers, who apparently destroyed the work with hammers. 1900-1922 period He travelled to Italy, France, Egypt, Greece, and Germany. During the Russian Revolution of 1905 Konenkov was with the workers on the barricades, soon after creating portraits of the heroes of the rebellion in Moscow. When Konenkov visited the house of the art collecto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
