George Grebenstchikoff

=Biographical Sketch=

George Dmitrievich Grebenstchikoff (Russian: Георгий Дмитриевич Гребенщиков) (6 May [24 April Old Style] 1883 – 11 January 1964) was a writer and professor of Russian literature. He was born in the Tomsk Oblast of Russia and married Tatiana Denisovna Stadnik in 1917.

Grebenstchikoff published segments of his serialized novel "Churaevy" before emigrating to Paris (1920) and then the United States (1924). In 1925 he and Ilia Tolstoi founded the Churaevka artists' colony in Southbury, Connecticut, where Grebenstchikoff also directed the Alatas publishing house. The Grebenstchikoffs later moved to Florida, where George taught creative writing and Russian literature at Florida Southern College from 1941 to 1952.

In addition to "Churaevy", Grebenstchikoff's principal writings include the novel "The Turbulent Giant" (1940) and "Egorkina zhizn"', an autobiographical work.

Literary Archives

The [http://www.ihrc.umn.edu/research/vitrage/all/go/ihrc809.html George and Tatiana Grebenstchikoff Papers] at the University of Minnesota [http://ihrc.umn.edu/ Immigration History Research Center] (collection number IHRC809) consists of seventeen linear feet of correspondence, diaries, photographs, manuscripts, audio recordings and printed material. Additional archival material from the Grebenstchikoffs is located at the [http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/index.html Beinecke Library] , Yale University.

Bibliography

*"V prostorakh Sibirii" (1913-1915)
*"Zmei Gorynych" (1916)
*"Step' da nebo" (1917)
*"Churaevy" (six volumes, 1922-1927)
*"Bylina o Mikulie Buianoviche" (1924), published in English as "The Turbulent Giant" (1940)
*"Egorkina Zhizn' " (1953 and 1957)

References

*Kasack, Wolfgang. 1988. "Dictionary of Russian Literature since 1917". New York: Columbia University Press.