Igor Georgievich Vishnevetsky (russian: link=no, Игорь Георгиевич Вишневецкий; born 5 January 1964) is a Russian-born poet, novelist, screenwriter, and editor. He has been a contributor and editor in numerous literary journals, anthologies, and scholarly periodicals since the 1980s. Some of his work has been published in English, including a translated version of his first novel, ''Leningrad'' (2010).

Biography

Igor Vishnevetsky was born in

Rostov-on-Don Rostov-on-Don ( rus, Ростов-на-Дону, r=Rostov-na-Donu, p=rɐˈstof nə dɐˈnu) is a port city and the administrative centre of Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District of Russia. It lies in the southeastern part of the East ...

in 1964 to Georgiy and Alla Vishnevetsky. Vishnevetsky originally aspired to become a composer. He studied piano performance in

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and audited music theory courses at Rostov State Rachmaninoff Conservatory before attending

Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

to pursue a degree in

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. After graduating in 1986, Vishnevetsky became an active member of the poetry and art scenes in Moscow and

St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

prior to the break-up of the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

. Vishnevetsky emigrated to the United States in 1992. Since that time his creative work has been done chiefly in North America. In 1996 he received a Ph.D. in Russian Literature from the Department of Slavic Languages of Brown University. Subsequently, he taught at Emory University for five years. In the 2000s, he has also become a notable music historian, and is considered an authority on

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and the Russian-American composer

Vladimir Dukelsky Vernon Duke ( 16 January 1969) was a Russian-born American composer/songwriter who also wrote under his birth name, Vladimir Dukelsky. He is best known for "Taking a Chance on Love," with lyrics by Ted Fetter and John Latouche (1940), "I Can't ...

. He also was a visiting professor of Russian and Film at

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. During this time, he wrote his experimental novel ''Leningrad'' which describes the dehumanizing effects of the Finno-German siege of the city during

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and deals with transformation of former Russian capital into a Soviet city. Praised for its insights into the minds of the people who experienced the collapse of everything associated with humanity, ''Leningrad'' won a 2010 award for the best fiction published in Russia's leading

literary periodical Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to incl ...

'' Novyi mir''. In 2012 it won a prestigious "New Verbal Art (Novaya Slovesnost', or NoS)" literary award. Since 2010 he had been working on a film version of ''Leningrad''. The film was completed in 2014 (a slightly shorter version in 2015) and received a number of awards. Film historian and critic

Andrei Plakhov Andrei Stepanovich Plakhov (russian: Андрей Степанович Плахов) (born 14 September 1950) is a Russian film critic and historian of cinema, columnist for ''Kommersant'' newspaper. Honorary President of the International Federati ...

called it "an absolutely amazing experiment,", while film critic Evgeny Maisel considered Visnevetsky's film "a true challenge to contemporary professional film production." Since 2018 he teaches English and Russian literature at the

Franciscan University of Steubenville Franciscan University of Steubenville is a private Franciscan university in Steubenville, Ohio. The university had 3,040 students as of fall 2019, including 2,317 students on campus, in 40 undergraduate and 8 graduate degree programs. The stude ...

. Vishnevetsky is an Eastern Orthodox Christian. His son is film critic

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky Ignatiy Igorevich Vishnevetsky (; russian: Игнатий Игоревич Вишневецкий; born September 5, 1986)Vishnevetsky, Ignati''Time Indefinite'': "A Talk with Sergei Loznitsa" ''Mubi'' is a Russian-American film critic, essayist ...

Bibliography

Collected poetry

* ''Poems'' (Stikhotvoreniya). Moscow: ALVA-XXI, 1992. 42 pp. * ''Threefold Vision'' (Troynoe zrenie). New York: Slovo/Word, 1997. 88 pp. * ''Air Mail: Poems 1996-2001'' (Vozdushnaya pochta: Stikhi 1996—2001). Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2001. 96 pp. * ''West of the Sun'' (Na zapad solntsa). Moscow: Nauka; Russkiy Gulliver, 2006. 278 pp. * ''First Snow'' (Pervosnezhye). Moscow: Russkiy Gulliver, 2008. 76 pp. * ''Rhymologion'' (Stikhoslov). Moscow: Ikar, 2008. 126 pp.

Fiction

* ''Leningrad: povest'.'' Moscow: Vremya, 2012. 160 pp. * ''Leningrad: A novel.'' Translated by Andrew Bromfield. Champaign - London - Dublin: Dalkey Archive Press, 2013. 124 pp. * ''Leningrad.'' Translated into Macedonian by Мirjana Naumovski. Skopje: Bata pres, 2014. 154 pp. * ''Non-Elective Affinities'' (Neizbiratelinoe srodstvo[: сollected prose – novels ''Leningrad'' (2009), ''Islands in the Lagoon / Ostrova v lagune'' (2012), ''Non-Elective Affinities / Neizbiratelinoe srodstvo'' (2013-2017), short fiction ''Poet Who Was Not Forgotten / Nezabytyi poet'' (2012)]). Moscow: EKSMO, 2018. 384 pp. * ''Leningrad.'' Traduzione a cura di Daniela Rizzi e Luisa Ruvoletto. Venezia: Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina, 2019. 216 pp.

Academic works

* ''Tragic Subject in Action:

Andrei Bely Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev ( rus, Бори́с Никола́евич Буга́ев, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ bʊˈɡajɪf, a=Boris Nikolayevich Bugayev.ru.vorb.oga), better known by the pen name Andrei Bely or Biely ( rus, Андре ...

'' (Tragicheskiy sub'yekt v deystvii: Andrey Belyi). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2000. 214 pp. * ''

'' and '' Sergei Solovyov'' in ''

Dictionary of Literary Biography The ''Dictionary of Literary Biography'' is a specialist biographical dictionary dedicated to literature. Published by Gale, the 375-volume setRogers, 106. covers a wide variety of literary topics, periods, and genres, with a focus on American ...

'', vol. 295 (2004) * ''The " Eurasianist Tendency" in the Music of the 1920s and 1930s'' («Evraziyskoe uklonenie» v muzyke 1920-kh -1930-kh godov). Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2005. 512 pp. * ''

'' (Sergey Prokof'ev). Moscow: Molodaya gvardiya, 2009. 704 pp. * ''

Arseny Tarkovsky Arseny Aleksandrovich Tarkovsky (russian: link=no, Арсений Александрович Тарковский; 27 May 1989) was a Soviet and Russian poet and translator. He was predeceased by his son, film director Andrei Tarkovsky. Biograp ...

'' in ''

'', vol. 359 (2011) * ''The Literary Fate of Vasiliy Kondrat'ev'' (Literaturnaya sud'ba Vasiliya Konrdat'eva), ''Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie,'' 3/157 (2019): 239-267

Filmography

*''Leningrad'' (2015)

References

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