Education
He graduated from the Petrograd University in 1923 and held the chair in Russian literature there.
He graduated from the Petrograd University in 1923 and held the chair in Russian literature there.
Gukovsky was considered the foremost authority on 18th-century Russian literature. After spending a winter in besieged Leningrad he read lectures in Saratov University until 1948. Upon his return to Leningrad Gukovsky was arrested as a "rootless cosmopolitan".
He died of a heart attack in Lefortovo Prison.
She died in childbirth. Their daughter Natalia Dolinina (1928-1879) wrote a number of books for children.
Gukovsky"s disciples include Yuri Lotman.
Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Union of Writers.