Background
Igor Vishnevetsky was born in Rostov-on-the-Don in 1964 to Georgiy and Alla Vishnevetsky.
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Igor Vishnevetsky was born in Rostov-on-the-Don in 1964 to Georgiy and Alla Vishnevetsky.
Vishnevetsky originally aspired to become a composer, and studied music in school before attending Moscow State University to pursue a degree in philology. In 1996 he received a Doctor of Philosophy in Russian Literature from the Department of Slavic Languages of Brown University.
He has been a contributor and editor in numerous Russian literary journals and anthologies since the 1980s. Some of his work has been published in English, including a translated version of his first novel, Leningrad (2010). Vishnevetsky emigrated to the United States in 1992, but now splits his time between the United States and Russia (he has remained a Russian citizen).
Subsequently, he taught at Emory University for five years.
In the 2000"s, he has also become a notable music historian, and is considered an authority on Sergei Prokofiev and the Russian-American composer Vladimir Dukelsky. He also was a visiting professor of Russian at Carnegie Mellon University.
lieutenant was in Pittsburgh where he composed his experimental novel "Leningrad" which describes dehumanizing effects of the Finno-German siege of the city during World World War II and deals with transformation of former Russian capital into a Soviet city. Since 2010 he has been working on a film version of "Leningrad".
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After graduating in 1986, Vishnevetsky became an active member of the poetry and art scenes that existed in Moscow and Saint St. Petersburg prior to the break-up of the Soviet Union.