Liubov Gurevich.

Liubov Yakovlevna Gurevich (Russian: Любо́вь Я́ковлевна Гуре́вич; November 1, 1866, Saint Petersburg – October 17, 1940, Moscow) was a Russian editor, translator, author, and critic.[1] She has been described as "Russia's most important woman literary journalist."[2] From 1894 to 1917 she was the publisher and chief editor of the monthly journal The Northern Herald (Severny Vestnik), a leading Russian symbolist publication based in Saint Petersburg.[3] The journal acted as a rallying-point for the Symbolists Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Zinaida Gippius, Fyodor Sologub, Nikolai Minsky, and Akim Volynsky.[4]

Gurevitch was of mixed social background. Her mother hailed from Russian nobility but her father was a Jewish convert to Russian Orthodoxy.[5]

In 1905, Gurevitch joined the Moscow Art Theatre (MAT) as a literary advisor.[6] She worked as an advisor and editor for the seminal Russian theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski for the next 30 years and influenced his writing more than anyone else.[7] Gurevich and Stanislavski had been writing to one another since the MAT's first tour to St Petersburg and became close friends.[8]

References

  1. ^ Carnicke (1998, 73) and Rabinowitz (1998, 236).
  2. ^ Rabinowitz (1998, 236).
  3. ^ Carnicke (1998, 75), Pyman (1994, 19), Rabinowitz (1998, 236), and Slonim (1962, 86).
  4. ^ Slonim (1962, 86).
  5. ^ Ruthchild, R. "Writing for Their Rights: Four Feminist Journalists: Mariia Chekhova, Liubov’ Gurevich, Mariia Pokrovskaia, and Ariadna Tyrkova" in An Improper Profession. De Gruyter.
  6. ^ Benedetti (1999, 154) and Carnicke (1998, 75).
  7. ^ Benedetti (1999, 154) and Carnicke (1998, 74).
  8. ^ Benedetti (1999, 154) and Magarshack (1950, 4).

Sources

  • Benedetti, Jean. 1999. Stanislavski: His Life and Art. Revised edition. Original edition published in 1988. London: Methuen. ISBN 0-413-52520-1.
  • Carnicke, Sharon M. 1998. Stanislavsky in Focus. Russian Theatre Archive Ser. London: Harwood Academic Publishers. ISBN 90-5755-070-9.
  • Magarshack, David. 1950. Stanislavsky: A Life. London and Boston: Faber, 1986. ISBN 0-571-13791-1.
  • Pyman, Avril. 1994. A History of Russian Symbolism. Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature ser. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge UP. ISBN 0-521-02430-7.
  • Rabinowitz, Stanley J. 1998. "No Room of Her Own: The Early Life and Career of Liubov' Gurevich." The Russian Review 57 (April): 236-252.
  • Slonim, Marc. 1962. From Chekhov to the Revolution: Russian Literature 1900-1917. Galaxy Book ed. New York: Oxford UP. ISBN 978-0-19-680173-5. Rpt. of first ten chapters of Modern Russian Literature: From Chekhov to the Present. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1953.
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