- Igor Vishnevetsky
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name = Igor Vishnevetsky
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birth_place =Rostov-on-the-Don ,USSR Igor Georgievich Vishnevetsky ( _ru. Игорь Георгиевич Вишневецкий)(b.
January 5 ,1964 inRostov-on-the-Don ,USSR ) is a notable Russian poet. He has been a contributor and editor in numerous Russianliterary journal s and anthologies since the 1980s. Though some of his work has been published in the United States, very little of it exists intranslation .Biography
Igor Vishnevetsky was born in
Rostov-on-the-Don in 1964 to Georgei and Alla Vishnevetsky. Vishnevetsky originally aspired to become a composer, and studied music in school before attendingMoscow State University to pursue a degree inphilology . After graduating in1986 , Vishnevetsky became an active member of the poetry and art scenes that existed in Moscow and St. Petersburg prior to the break-up of theSoviet Union .Vishnevetsky emigrated to the
United States in 1995, but now splits his time between the United States and Russia (he has remained a Russian citizen). In recent years, he has also become a notable music historian, and is considered an authority on the Russian-American composerVladimir Dukelsky .Bibliography
Collected Poetry
*"Стихотворения" - "Poems" (
1992 )
*"Тройное зрение" - "Threefold Vision" (1997 )
*"Воздушная почта: Стихи 1996—2001" - "Air Mail: Poems 1996-2001" (2001 )
*"На запад солнца" - "West of the Sun" (2006 )Academic Works
*"Трагический субъект в действии: Андрей Белый" - "Tragic Subject and Action:
Andrei Bely " (2000 )
*"«Евразийское уклонение» в музыке 1920-х—1930-х годов" - "The "Eurasianist Tendency" in the Music of the 1920s and 1930s" (2005 )External Links:----
* [http://www.vavilon.ru/texts/vishnevetsky0.html Texts for Online Magazine "Vavilon"] (in Russian)
* [http://www.newkamera.de/vish__.html Recent Texts] (in Russian)
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