Struve, Gleb

Gleb Petrovich Struve (1898-1985) was a historian of Russian early 20th-century and migr literature and a member of the the post-revolutionary Russian migr communities in Europe and the United States. He taught at universities in Great Britain and the United States

From the guide to the Gleb Struve papers, 1922-1986, (GB 206 Leeds University Library)

Biography

Russian-American literary historian and critic; professor of Slavic languages and literatures, University of California, Berkeley, 1947-1967.

From the guide to the Struve, Gleb. Papers, 1889-1979, (Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.)

Biographical Note

• 1898, April 19: Born, St. Petersburg, Russia. Son of Petr Berngardovich Struve
• 1917 - 1918 : Serves in the Volunteer (White) Army. Spends three months as hostage in the Novorossiisk city prison
• 1918: Escapes to Finland and later emigrates to England
• 1921: B.A., Balliol College, Oxford
• 1921 - 1932 : Engages in journalism in Germany and then France. Contributes mainly to Russian emigre newspapers in Paris including Vozrozhdenie, Rossiia and Rossiia i Slavianstvo
• 1932 - 1946 : Lecturer and later Reader in Russian Literature, University of London
• 1933: Translator, Ivan Bunin, The Well of Days
• 1935: Author, Soviet Russian Literature. Revised and enlarged editions appear under somewhat different titles in 1944, 1951 and 1971. Translated into French, 1946; German, 1958 and 1964; Italian, 1975
• 1946: Author (with E.A. Moore), Practical Russian
• 1946 - 1947 : Visiting Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley
• 1947 - 1967 : Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Berkeley
• 1950: Author, Russkii evropeets: materialy dlia biografii i kharakteristiki kniazia P.B. Kozlovskogo Translator (with Mary Kriger), George Orwell's Animal Farm. Reissued in 1967 and 1971
• 1952: Editor (with G. A. Birkett), Anton Chekhov, Selected Short Stories Editor, Neizdannyi Gumilev: "Otravlennaia tunika" i drugie neizdannye proizvedeniia
• 1956: Author, Russkaia literatura v izgnanii: opyt istoricheskogo obzora russkoi zarubezhnoi literatury. Second edition, 1984
• 1957: Author, Geschichte der Sowjetliteratur
• 1961: Editor and translator, Russian Stories Editor, Boris Pasternak, Sochineniia
• 1962 - 1968 : Editor, N. Gumilev, Sobranie sochinenii
• 1964: Editor, Osip Mandel'shtam. Sobranie sochinenii v dvukh tomakh. Second edition, 1981
• 1965: Editor, Anna Akhmatova, Sochineniia. Second edition, 1967 Editor, Nikolai Zabolotskii, Stikhotvoreniia
• 1967: Author, A Century of Russian Prose and Verse Author, Utloe zhil'e: Izbrannye stikhi 1915-1949. Second edition, 1978
• 1969: Editor, Anna Akhmatova, Rekviem Editor, Nikolai Kliuev, Sochineniia
• 1971: Hon. LLD., University of Toronto
• 1972: Editor, Marina Tsvetaeva, Neizdannye pis'ma
• 1978: Recipient, Berkeley Citation
• 1979: Author, K istorii russkoi poezii 1910kh--nachala 1920kh godov
• 1981: Author, O chetyrekh poetakh
• 1982: Editor, Maksimilian Voloshin, Stikhotvoreniia i poemy v dvukh tomakh
• 1985, June 4: Dies, Berkeley, California

From the guide to the Gleb Struve Papers, 1810-1985, (Hoover Institution Archives)