- Vladimir L'vovich Korvin-Piotrovskii
=Biographical Sketch=
Vladimir L'vovich Korvin-Piotrovskii ( _ru. Владимир Львович Корвин-Пиотровский)was born May 15, 1891 in
Kiev . His place of birth is sometimes identified as the Ukranian town ofBila Tserkva , where Korvin-Piotrovskii spent much of his childhood. DuringWord War I , Korvin-Piotrovskii served in theWhite Army as an artillery officer. After being taken prisoner and barely escaping execution, he crossed through Poland and made his way to Berlin around 1920.In Berlin, Korvin-Piotrovskii became active in the Russian emigre literary community. There he met
IUrii Ofrosimov and Vladimir Sirin (Nabokov). He also became involved with the Berlin Poets' Club, a group of Russian emigre poets founded byMikhail Gorlin . In addition to Ofrosimov, Korvin-Piotrovskii and Sirin, members includedRaisa Blokh , Nina Korvin-Piotrovskaia (née Kaplun),Vera Nabokov , andSofiia Pregel' .Vladimir and Nina Korvin-Piotrovskii left Germany before
World War II began. Nina Korvin-Piotrovskaia worked at the French Embassy in Berlin and they were able to travel to Paris with embassy staff. During World War II, Korvin-Piotrovskii was active in theFrench Resistance movement. He was arrested and imprisoned for approximately eight months in 1944. His fellow prisoners included the French writerAndré Frossard , whose memoir "La maison des otages" documents this time period.Vladimir and Nina Korvin-Piotrovskii were close friends with Italo and Leila Griselli and visited them many times in Italy.
Italo Griselli , a sculptor, made busts of both Vladimir and Nina Korvin-Piotrovskii.In 1961 the family moved to
Los Angeles , California, where Vladimir Korvin-Piotrovskii died on April 2, 1966 and Nina Korvin-Piotrovskaia died in 1975Literary Archives
Korvin-Piotrovskii's literary archive is at the
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library atYale University .Bibliography
*"Zvezdnoi tropoiu" (1921)
*"Polyn' i zvezdy" (1923)
*"Beatriche" (1929)
*"Vozdushnyi zmei" (1950)
*"Porazhenie" (1960)
*"Pozdnii gost" ((1968 - 1969)References
*Kasack, Wolfgang. 1988. "Dictionary of Russian literature since 1917". New York: Columbia University Press.
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