Background
MIRSKIY, Dmitriy was born on August 27, 1890 in village Giyovka, Khar’kov Province. Son of the liberal tsarist ministry, Prince Svyatopolk-Mirskiy.
MIRSKIY, Dmitriy was born on August 27, 1890 in village Giyovka, Khar’kov Province. Son of the liberal tsarist ministry, Prince Svyatopolk-Mirskiy.
Graduate Philological Faculty, Saint St. Petersburg University.
191 1 published collection of verse, written in his youth. After 1917 October Revol in emigration. 1922-1932 lived in England and lectured on Russian lit at London University and the Royal College.
Literature critic for journals, “Criterion” and “Echange”. 1926-1928 contributed to almanach “Versty”, Brussels. Wrote English-language works “A History of Russian Literature” (1927) and “Contemporary Russian Literature” (1926).
Published several anthologies of Russian poetry. 1930 joined Communist Party of Britain. 1932 returned to Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and engaged in lit work.
Published articles on the theory and history of Russian and Western literature 1934 published soc essay “The Intelligentsia” based on his impressions of England. Helped popularize English literature with the articles “Contemporary English Literature” (1933) about T. South. Eliot and “Ulysses” (1935).
Wrote preface to editions of works by Smollett, Shelley, Huxley, et cetera Compiled first Russianlanguage “Antologiya novoy angliyskoy poezii” (An Anthology of New English Poetry) (1937). Wrote articles on Soviet poets North. Zabolotskiy, East. Bagritskiy and P. Vasil’yev.
Also worked on biography of Pushkin, part of which was published in 1937. 1937 arrested by People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs.
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