Gleb Petrovich Struve (Russian: Глеб Петрович Струве; 1 May 1898 – 4 June 1985) was a Russian poet and literary historian.

Biography

Gleb Petrovich Struve was born on 1 May 1898. His father was the political theorist Peter Berngardovich Struve. Struve came from St. Petersburg and joined the

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in 1918.Russkaja literatura v izgnanii
(in German) Later that year he fled to Finland, then to Britain, where he studied at the

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(

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) until 1921. It was there that he met

Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ( ; 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (), was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist. Born in Imperial Russia in 1899, Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Rus ...

, with whom he remained on friendly terms and corresponded until the novelist's death. Between 1921 and 1924 Struve worked as a journalist in Berlin; and until 1932 in Paris. In 1932 Struve replaced D. S. Mirsky at the

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's (UCL) School of Slavonic Studies. Later he moved to the

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, in the United States. Struve's publications number around 900, including editions of works by Russian authors suppressed in the

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, such as

Anna Akhmatova Anna Andreyevna Gorenko rus, А́нна Андре́евна Горе́нко, p=ˈanːə ɐnˈdrʲe(j)ɪvnə ɡɐˈrʲɛnkə, a=Anna Andreyevna Gorenko.ru.oga, links=yes; , . ( – 5 March 1966), better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova,. ...

Nikolai Gumilev Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev (also Gumilyov; , ; – August 26, 1921) was a Russian poet, literary critic, traveler, and military officer. He was a co-founder of the Acmeist movement. He was the husband of Anna Akhmatova and the father of Lev ...

Marina Tsvetayeva Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva ( rus, Марина Ивановна Цветаева, p=mɐˈrʲinə ɪˈvanəvnə tsvʲɪˈta(j)ɪvə, links=yes; 31 August 1941) was a Russian poet. Her work is some of the most well-known in twentieth-century Russ ...

, and

Osip Mandelstam Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam (, ; – 27 December 1938) was a Russian and Soviet poet. He was one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school. Osip Mandelstam was arrested during the repressions of the 1930s and sent into internal exile wi ...

. As an editor, he frequently collaborated with Russian born editor Boris Filippov. Struve died on 4 June 1985 in

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. The writer

Nikita Struve Nikita Alexeyevich Struve (; 16 February 1931 – 7 May 2016) was a French author and translator of Russian descent, specializing in the study of Russian émigrés. Biography Struve was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, a suburb of Paris, into the Str ...

was the son of his brother Aleksey and therefore Gleb's nephew.

References

External links

Worldcat publication listingRegister of the Gleb Struve Papers, 1810-1985
at th
Hoover Institution Archives

Register of the Petr Berngardovich Struve Papers, 1890-1982
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Hoover Institution Archives
* 1898 births 1985 deaths Russian literary critics Nobility from the Russian Empire 20th-century Russian poets Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford

Gleb Gleb (; ) or Hlib (, ) is a Slavic male given name derived from the Old Norse name ''Guðleifr'', which means "heir of god." According to another version, the name Gleb comes from the name Olaf. It is popular in Russia due to an early martyr, Saint ...

Russian people of German descent White Russian emigrants to the United Kingdom Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United Kingdom White Russian emigrants to the United States {{Russia-poet-stub