Irakly Luarsabovich Andronikov (11 June 1990, born Irakli Luarsabis dze Andronikashvili),

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: was a Soviet and Russian literature historian, philologist, spoken word artist, and media personality.

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(1982).

Biography

Irakly Andronikov came from a Georgian noble family of

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(Andronikov) and was born in

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. His father Luarsab Nikolaevich Andronikov was a lawyer whom the

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appointed Senate Criminal Department Secretary in 1917. Irakly's mother Yekaterina Gurevich came from an artistic Gurevich-Ilyin family. Irakly's maternal grandfather Yakov Gurevich was the founder of

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, the first Russian

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for women. Irakly's grandmother Lyubov Gurevich (née Ilyina) was a daughter of architect Ivan Ivanovich Ilyin (one of the builders of the

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) and an aunt of philosopher

Ivan Ilyin Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin (; – 21 December 1954) was a Russian jurist, religious and political philosopher, publicist, orator, and conservative monarchist. While he saw Russia's 1917 February Revolution as a "temporary disorder", the October ...

. His aunt

Liubov Gurevich Liubov Yakovlevna Gurevich (; November 1, 1866, Saint Petersburg – October 17, 1940, Moscow) was a Russian editor, translator, author, and critic. She has been described as "Russia's most important woman literary journalist." From 1894 to 1917 s ...

and uncle Yakov Yakovlevich Gurevich were notable writers and magazine editors. Irakly's younger brother Elephter Andronikashvili was a notable physicist. In 1918 Luarsab was invited to teach philosophy at Tula State Pedagogical Institute in

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. In 1921 the family briefly moved to

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and then settled in

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. In 1925 Irakly graduated from a secondary school in Tbilisi and entered the Faculty of History and Philology at

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and the philological department of the Art History Institute. He studied history and philology under Boris Eikhenbaum,

Viktor Zhirmunsky Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky (; 2 August 1891 – 31 January 1971; also ''Wiktor Maximowitsch Schirmunski, Zirmunskij, Schirmunski, Zhirmunskii;'' ) was a Soviet and Russian literary historian and linguist. Life Born in Saint Petersburg in 1891 t ...

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and

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. In 1928 he became interested in music and worked as a lecturer for the

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. In 1930 Andronikov graduated from Leningrad State University and started to work for children magazines Chizh and . From 1934 he worked as a

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for the Leningrad Public Library. He started to study biography and the works of Russian poet

Mikhail Lermontov Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov ( , ; rus, Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов, , mʲɪxɐˈil ˈjʉrʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈlʲerməntəf, links=yes; – ) was a Russian Romanticism, Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called ...

at the university and continued his study while working in the library. He published his first article about Lermontov in 1936 and in 1939 he published his book ''Lermontov Life''. The same year he was admitted to the

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. In 1942 Andronikov worked as a correspondent of an Army newspaper on

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. In 1946 he obtained his

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degree for a thesis about

. He continued to publish books about Lermontov «Рассказы литературоведа» (1949), «Лермонтов» (1951), «Лермонтов. Исследования, статьи, рассказы» (1952), «Лермонтов в Грузии в 1837 году» (1955). The last book, ''Lermontov in

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in 1837'', was considered sufficient to give him the

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degree of

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(1956). He continued his Lermontov study and in 1967 he received the

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for his book «Лермонтов. Исследования и находки» (Lermontov. Research and Findings) published in 1964. Andronikov also was awarded

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(1976) for his contributions to Russian culture. Andronikov started to perform public lectures in a writers club in 1935 and soon became enormously popular. In 1954 he started to perform on television (show ''Andronikov Tells'' (Андроников Рассказывает). In a number of documentaries there, he tells his stories: «Загадка Н. Ф. И.», «Страницы большого искусства», «Портреты неизвестных», «Слово Андроникова» were published. He died in

in 1990.

Notes

References

External links

''The Portrait'', (story), from ''Such a Simple Thing and Other Stories'', FLPH, Moscow, 1959.

Prose by Andronikov
on lib.ru
''N.F.I. Mystery'' by Irakly Andronikov
{{DEFAULTSORT:Andronikov, Irakly 1908 births 1990 deaths Mass media people from Saint Petersburg Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Moscow State University alumni Saint Petersburg State University alumni People's Artists of the USSR Recipients of the Lenin Prize Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Recipients of the Order of the Red Star Recipients of the USSR State Prize Irakly Jewish Russian writers Mikhail Lermontov scholars Russian literary historians Russian male writers Russian philologists Russian television presenters Soviet Jews Soviet literary historians Soviet male writers Soviet philologists Soviet television presenters Burials at Vvedenskoye Cemetery