Knowledge (XXG)

D. S. Mirsky

Source 📝

797:
after each sentence you uttered—it was all so amusing and endearing. Though he had very little money—he's a staunch democrat—he did inherit his well-born ancestors' gourmandise. His stomach will be the ruin of him. Every day he leaves his wretched excuse for a cap and overcoat with the concierge and goes into the luxurious restaurant , spending no less than forty rubles on a meal (since he drinks as well as eats) plus four to tip the waiter and one to tip the concierge.
809:, who met Mirsky after his return to the USSR, apparently met one of the author's critics, a French correspondent to Russia named Luciani, who had this to say of Mirsky: "Mirsky had pulled off the unusual feat of managing to be a parasite under three regimes — as a prince under Czarism, as a professor under Capitalism, and as an homme-de-lettres under Communism." On the other hand, Muggeridge himself said that he was "glad to be his protégé." 49: 729: 154: 1204: 796:
I liked him enormously: the vast erudition, the sincerity, the literary talent, the ludicrous beard and ludicrous bald spot, the suit which, though made in England, hung loosely on him, shabby and threadbare, the way he had of coming out with a sympathetic ee-ee-ee (like a guttural piglet squeal)
751:
who was visiting the Soviet Union in 1937. Carr stumbled into Prince Mirsky on the streets of Leningrad (modern Saint Petersburg, Russia), and despite Prince Mirsky's best efforts to pretend not to know him, Carr persuaded his old friend to have lunch with him. Since this was at the height of the
926: 281: 758:, and any Soviet citizen who had any unauthorised contact with a foreigner was likely to be regarded as a spy, the NKVD arrested Mirsky as a British spy. In April 1937, he was denounced in the journal 208: 1314: 1294: 853: 1289: 1299: 1239: 1319: 432: 976: 543: 579:
22 August] 1890 – c. 7 June 1939), a Russian political and literary historian who promoted the knowledge and translations of
1264: 1234: 1279: 1274: 617: 1304: 1026: 1269: 1171: 1156: 1093: 417: 359: 1309: 705: 1259: 1229: 684:
has called it "the best history of Russian literature in any language including Russian". This work was followed with the
576: 62: 1284: 1244: 1254: 374: 859: 628:. He relinquished his princely title at an early age. During his school years, he became interested in the poetry of 369: 536: 412: 218: 608: 427: 422: 392: 364: 996: 777: 657: 31: 1119: 407: 178: 173: 1249: 880: 641: 447: 1224: 1219: 760: 673: 529: 402: 296: 286: 203: 137: 701: 592: 510: 505: 500: 475: 470: 301: 806: 747:. Mirsky's arrest may have been caused by a chance meeting with his friend the British historian 649: 584: 580: 261: 1167: 1152: 1089: 1022: 972: 966: 951: 946: 786:
was eventually published in Russia, Mirsky's reputation in his native country remains sparse.
629: 336: 326: 198: 193: 1184: 921:(1937) in Russian, published during Mirsky's arrest without acknowledgment of his authorship 872: 789: 681: 564: 306: 271: 256: 223: 168: 874:
A History of Russian Literature: From the Earliest Times to the Death of Dostoyevsky (1881)
48: 30:"Prince Mirsky" redirects here. For his father, the Imperial Minister of the Interior, see 1037: 621: 321: 1189: 898: 776:
labour camps near Magadan in June 1939 and was buried on the 7th of that month. He was
769: 717: 653: 465: 442: 311: 72: 712:
if he could procure his pardon by Soviet authorities. The permission to return to the
1213: 812: 765: 754: 669: 480: 397: 331: 233: 213: 188: 183: 728: 1185:
Contemporary Russian Literature, 1881-1925 - Full View | HathiTrust Digital Library
588: 341: 316: 276: 251: 228: 93: 153: 886: 865: 925: 782: 740: 709: 689: 645: 485: 291: 145: 748: 89: 820: 625: 17: 1166:, Paris, Intitut d'Études Slaves, 1980, 110 pages, 6 planches hors-texte ( 792:
gives a lively portrait of Mirsky in his diary entry for 27 January 1935:
660:'s staff. After the defeat of the White forces he fled to Poland in 1920. 1198: 515: 490: 68: 720:
wrote in her diary that "soon there'll be a bullet through your head".
697: 596: 495: 1019:
History of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, 1915-1990
739:
Mirsky returned to Russia in September 1932. Five years later, during
607:
He was born Prince Dimitry Petrovich Svyatopolk-Mirsky, scion of the
437: 1194: 924: 915:(1935), originally in Russian, translated by the author to English 773: 727: 613: 744: 733: 713: 1021:. London: School of Slavonic and East European Studies. p. 29. 678:
A History of Russian Literature: From Its Beginnings to 1880
1149:
D. S. Mirsky : A Russian-English Life, 1890–1939
1106:
Muggeridge, Malcolm Tread Softly, for you Tread on My Jokes
1164:
D. S. Mirsky : profil critique et bibliographique
716:
was granted him in 1932. On seeing him off to Russia,
1190:
Red Prince, a Radio Liberty publication (in Russian)
889:: Evanston, Il: Northwestern University Press, 1999. 700:. He also is usually credited with coining the term 640:
Mirsky was mobilized in 1914 and saw service in the
123: 115: 107: 99: 79: 55: 39: 672:in 1921. While teaching Russian literature at the 1074:. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin. p. 446. 858:. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1926. Archived from 686:Contemporary Russian Literature, 1881–1925, 1052: 1050: 823:had a more favourable assessment of this book. 968:D.S. Mirsky. A Russian-English Life, 1890-1939 624:Minister of Interior, and Countess Ekaterina 537: 8: 1042:The Vices of Integrity, E.H. Carr, 1892–1982 885:. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1949; 990: 988: 955:, January 2002. Retrieved 25 February 2016. 929:Bookcover of the biography of Dmitry Mirsky 855:Contemporary Russian Literature, 1881–1925 696:, his own views gradually evolving toward 544: 530: 132: 47: 36: 1315:Communist Party of Great Britain members 971:. Oxford University Press. p. 295. 27:Russian historian and critic (1890-1939) 1044:(London; New York: Verso, 1999), p. 76. 939: 692:and the chief editor of the periodical 144: 688:. Mirsky was a founding member of the 676:, Mirsky published his landmark study 569:Дми́трий Петро́вич Святопо́лк-Ми́рский 433:Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine 1295:Academics of the University of London 1162:Nina Lavroukine et Leonid Tchertkov, 879:Reprinted together with 1926 work as 7: 913:The Intelligentsia of Great Britain 817:The Intelligentsia of Great Britain 632:and started writing poems himself. 618:Pyotr Dmitrievich Svyatopolk-Mirsky 919:Anthology of Modern English Poetry 877:. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1927. 561:Dmitry Petrovich Svyatopolk-Mirsky 59:Dmitry Petrovich Svyatopolk-Mirsky 25: 1290:20th-century Russian male writers 1151:. Oxford University Press: 2000 ( 360:The Geographical Pivot of History 1300:20th-century Russian journalists 1240:Nobility from the Russian Empire 1202: 997:"Baleful Smile of the Crocodile" 995:Ascherson, Neal (8 March 2001). 947:The strange case of D.S. Mirsky. 772:officer". He died in one of the 706:Communist Party of Great Britain 595:and died in a Soviet gulag near 152: 1320:Great Purge victims from Russia 882:A History of Russian Literature 1088:(Yale University Press, 2005: 1: 1133:The Coming British Revolution 965:Gerald Stanton Smith (2000). 743:, Mirsky was arrested by the 583:in the United Kingdom and of 903:(London: Holme Press, 1931). 1265:Russian literary historians 1235:People from Valkovsky Uyezd 1201:(public domain audiobooks) 833:Anthology of Russian poetry 559:is the English pen-name of 375:The Fourth Political Theory 1336: 1280:Soviet literary historians 1275:20th-century Russian poets 370:Foundations of Geopolitics 29: 1305:20th-century philologists 839:Modern Russian Literature 704:. In 1931, he joined the 636:World War I and Civil War 568: 46: 1270:Russian literary critics 907:Russia: A Social History 609:Svyatopolk-Mirsky family 423:Party of Peace and Unity 136:This article is part of 65:22 August] 1890 41:Dmitry Svyatopolk-Mirsky 1310:Russian Marxist writers 815:was highly critical of 732:Mirsky after arrest in 575:(9 September [ 75:(now Liubotyn, Ukraine) 32:Pyotr Svyatopolk-Mirsky 1147:Gerald Stanton Smith. 1120:The Road to Wigan Pier 1108:ISBN 0002118041 p. 33 1058:The Vices of Integrity 1001:London Review of Books 930: 799: 780:in 1962. Although his 736: 179:Anti-Western sentiment 174:Anti-British sentiment 61:9 September [ 1195:Works by D. S. Mirsky 1017:Roberts, I.W. (1991) 928: 827:Selected publications 794: 731: 642:Imperial Russian Army 448:Youth Union of Turkey 1260:Russian philologists 1230:People from Liubotyn 1174:). (French language) 1070:Conquest, R (1971). 761:Literaturnaya Gazeta 690:Eurasianist movement 674:University of London 668:Mirsky emigrated to 403:Eurasian Youth Union 204:Russian civilization 1285:Soviet male writers 1245:National Bolsheviks 893:A History of Russia 702:National Bolshevism 593:Kharkov Governorate 511:Russian nationalism 506:Russian irredentism 501:Russian imperialism 476:National Bolshevism 471:Intermediate Region 1255:Russian male poets 1084:Kornei Chukovsky, 931: 807:Malcolm Muggeridge 737: 650:October Revolution 585:English literature 581:Russian literature 571:), often known as 209:Russian messianism 978:978-0-19-816006-9 952:The New Criterion 630:Russian symbolism 591:. He was born in 554: 553: 199:Primakov doctrine 194:Nuclear Orthodoxy 131: 130: 16:(Redirected from 1327: 1206: 1205: 1135: 1129: 1123: 1115: 1109: 1103: 1097: 1086:Diary, 1901-1969 1082: 1076: 1075: 1072:The Great Terror 1067: 1061: 1054: 1045: 1035: 1029: 1015: 1009: 1008: 992: 983: 982: 962: 956: 944: 878: 863: 790:Korney Chukovsky 724:Return to Russia 682:Vladimir Nabokov 622:Imperial Russian 570: 546: 539: 532: 224:Pochvennichestvo 169:Anti-Americanism 156: 133: 86: 67:Giyovka estate, 51: 37: 21: 1335: 1334: 1330: 1329: 1328: 1326: 1325: 1324: 1210: 1209: 1203: 1181: 1144: 1142:Further reading 1139: 1138: 1130: 1126: 1117:Orwell, George 1116: 1112: 1104: 1100: 1083: 1079: 1069: 1068: 1064: 1055: 1048: 1038:Jonathan Haslam 1036: 1032: 1016: 1012: 994: 993: 986: 979: 964: 963: 959: 949:Hilton Kramer, 945: 941: 936: 871: 852: 829: 804: 741:the Great Purge 726: 666: 656:as a member of 638: 605: 550: 521: 520: 461: 453: 452: 428:Patriotic Party 413:Left Opposition 388: 380: 379: 355: 347: 346: 247: 239: 238: 164: 88: 84: 66: 60: 42: 35: 28: 23: 22: 15: 12: 11: 5: 1333: 1331: 1323: 1322: 1317: 1312: 1307: 1302: 1297: 1292: 1287: 1282: 1277: 1272: 1267: 1262: 1257: 1252: 1247: 1242: 1237: 1232: 1227: 1222: 1212: 1211: 1208: 1207: 1192: 1187: 1180: 1179:External links 1177: 1176: 1175: 1160: 1143: 1140: 1137: 1136: 1124: 1110: 1098: 1077: 1062: 1046: 1030: 1027:978-0903425230 1010: 984: 977: 957: 938: 937: 935: 932: 923: 922: 916: 910: 904: 896: 890: 869: 862:on 2021-10-01. 849: 848: 842: 836: 828: 825: 803: 800: 725: 722: 718:Virginia Woolf 665: 662: 654:White movement 652:he joined the 637: 634: 604: 601: 552: 551: 549: 548: 541: 534: 526: 523: 522: 519: 518: 513: 508: 503: 498: 493: 488: 483: 478: 473: 468: 466:Hellenoturkism 462: 460:Related topics 459: 458: 455: 454: 451: 450: 445: 443:Smenovekhovtsy 440: 435: 430: 425: 420: 415: 410: 405: 400: 395: 389: 386: 385: 382: 381: 378: 377: 372: 367: 365:New Chronology 362: 356: 353: 352: 349: 348: 345: 344: 339: 334: 329: 324: 319: 314: 309: 304: 299: 294: 289: 284: 279: 274: 269: 264: 259: 254: 248: 245: 244: 241: 240: 237: 236: 231: 226: 221: 216: 211: 206: 201: 196: 191: 186: 181: 176: 171: 165: 162: 161: 158: 157: 149: 148: 142: 141: 129: 128: 125: 121: 120: 117: 113: 112: 109: 105: 104: 101: 97: 96: 87:(aged 48) 81: 77: 76: 73:Russian Empire 57: 53: 52: 44: 43: 40: 26: 24: 14: 13: 10: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 1332: 1321: 1318: 1316: 1313: 1311: 1308: 1306: 1303: 1301: 1298: 1296: 1293: 1291: 1288: 1286: 1283: 1281: 1278: 1276: 1273: 1271: 1268: 1266: 1263: 1261: 1258: 1256: 1253: 1251: 1248: 1246: 1243: 1241: 1238: 1236: 1233: 1231: 1228: 1226: 1223: 1221: 1218: 1217: 1215: 1200: 1196: 1193: 1191: 1188: 1186: 1183: 1182: 1178: 1173: 1172:2-7204-0164-1 1169: 1165: 1161: 1158: 1157:0-19-816006-2 1154: 1150: 1146: 1145: 1141: 1134: 1128: 1125: 1122: 1121: 1114: 1111: 1107: 1102: 1099: 1095: 1094:0-300-10611-4 1091: 1087: 1081: 1078: 1073: 1066: 1063: 1059: 1053: 1051: 1047: 1043: 1039: 1034: 1031: 1028: 1024: 1020: 1014: 1011: 1006: 1002: 998: 991: 989: 985: 980: 974: 970: 969: 961: 958: 954: 953: 948: 943: 940: 933: 927: 920: 917: 914: 911: 908: 905: 902: 901: 897: 894: 891: 888: 884: 883: 876: 875: 870: 867: 861: 857: 856: 851: 850: 846: 843: 840: 837: 834: 831: 830: 826: 824: 822: 818: 814: 813:George Orwell 810: 808: 801: 798: 793: 791: 787: 785: 784: 779: 778:rehabilitated 775: 771: 767: 764:as a "filthy 763: 762: 757: 756: 755:Yezhovshchina 750: 746: 742: 735: 730: 723: 721: 719: 715: 711: 707: 703: 699: 695: 691: 687: 683: 679: 675: 671: 670:Great Britain 663: 661: 659: 655: 651: 647: 643: 635: 633: 631: 627: 623: 619: 616: 615: 610: 602: 600: 598: 594: 590: 586: 582: 578: 574: 573:Prince Mirsky 566: 562: 558: 547: 542: 540: 535: 533: 528: 527: 525: 524: 517: 514: 512: 509: 507: 504: 502: 499: 497: 494: 492: 489: 487: 484: 482: 481:Neo-Sovietism 479: 477: 474: 472: 469: 467: 464: 463: 457: 456: 449: 446: 444: 441: 439: 436: 434: 431: 429: 426: 424: 421: 419: 416: 414: 411: 409: 406: 404: 401: 399: 398:Eurasia Party 396: 394: 391: 390: 387:Organisations 384: 383: 376: 373: 371: 368: 366: 363: 361: 358: 357: 351: 350: 343: 340: 338: 335: 333: 330: 328: 325: 323: 320: 318: 315: 313: 310: 308: 305: 303: 300: 298: 295: 293: 290: 288: 285: 283: 280: 278: 275: 273: 270: 268: 265: 263: 260: 258: 255: 253: 250: 249: 243: 242: 235: 234:Thalassocracy 232: 230: 227: 225: 222: 220: 217: 215: 214:Russian world 212: 210: 207: 205: 202: 200: 197: 195: 192: 190: 189:Nomad studies 187: 185: 184:Neo-Stalinism 182: 180: 177: 175: 172: 170: 167: 166: 160: 159: 155: 151: 150: 147: 143: 139: 135: 134: 126: 122: 118: 114: 110: 106: 102: 98: 95: 91: 82: 78: 74: 70: 64: 58: 54: 50: 45: 38: 33: 19: 1250:Eurasianists 1163: 1148: 1132: 1127: 1118: 1113: 1105: 1101: 1085: 1080: 1071: 1065: 1057: 1041: 1033: 1018: 1013: 1004: 1000: 967: 960: 950: 942: 918: 912: 906: 899: 892: 881: 873: 866:Google Books 860:the original 854: 844: 838: 832: 816: 811: 805: 795: 788: 781: 759: 753: 738: 693: 685: 677: 667: 648:. After the 639: 612: 606: 589:Soviet Union 572: 560: 557:D. S. Mirsky 556: 555: 266: 229:Tellurocracy 103:D. S. Mirsky 94:Soviet Union 85:(1939-06-07) 1225:1939 deaths 1220:1890 births 1131:Ali, Tariq 783:magnum opus 770:White Guard 710:Maxim Gorky 646:World War I 626:Bobrinskaya 486:Pan-Slavism 337:Kholmogorov 219:Scythianism 146:Eurasianism 108:Nationality 83:7 June 1939 18:D.S. Mirsky 1214:Categories 1096:), p. 313. 1007:(5): 9–10. 934:References 766:Wrangelist 749:E. H. Carr 708:and asked 603:Early life 297:Nazarbayev 272:Suvchinsky 262:Trubetzkoy 127:Literature 90:Sevvostlag 821:Tariq Ali 802:Criticism 611:, son of 327:Mackinder 287:Chkheidze 257:Vernadsky 119:Criticism 1199:LibriVox 1060:, p. 76. 1056:Haslam, 516:Turanism 491:Putinism 307:Zyuganov 302:Perinçek 282:Savitsky 252:Karsavin 163:Concepts 138:a series 100:Pen name 69:Lyubotin 895:(1928)' 887:Reprint 845:Pushkin 698:Marxism 694:Eurasia 658:Denikin 644:during 597:Magadan 587:in the 565:Russian 496:Ruscism 408:Falanga 317:Panarin 292:Gumilev 124:Subject 111:Russian 1170:  1155:  1092:  1025:  975:  909:(1931) 847:(1926) 841:(1925) 835:(1924) 664:London 438:Proryv 393:Amanat 342:Dugina 267:Mirsky 246:People 900:Lenin 864:(via 774:gulag 614:knyaz 418:Nashi 354:Works 332:Eskin 322:Dugin 312:Putin 277:Efron 116:Genre 1168:ISBN 1153:ISBN 1090:ISBN 1023:ISBN 973:ISBN 819:but 768:and 745:NKVD 734:1937 714:USSR 577:O.S. 80:Died 63:O.S. 56:Born 1197:at 1216:: 1159:). 1049:^ 1040:, 1005:23 1003:. 999:. 987:^ 868:). 680:. 620:, 599:. 567:: 140:on 92:, 71:, 981:. 563:( 545:e 538:t 531:v 34:. 20:)

Index

D.S. Mirsky
Pyotr Svyatopolk-Mirsky

O.S.
Lyubotin
Russian Empire
Sevvostlag
Soviet Union
a series
Eurasianism

Anti-Americanism
Anti-British sentiment
Anti-Western sentiment
Neo-Stalinism
Nomad studies
Nuclear Orthodoxy
Primakov doctrine
Russian civilization
Russian messianism
Russian world
Scythianism
Pochvennichestvo
Tellurocracy
Thalassocracy
Karsavin
Vernadsky
Trubetzkoy
Mirsky
Suvchinsky

Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Additional terms may apply.