Irakly Andronikov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Irakly Andronikov

Literature historian

Date of Birth: 15-Sep-1908

Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg

Date of Death: 11-Jun-1990

Profession: writer, television presenter, literary historian, storyteller, literary scholar

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Irakly Andronikov

  • Irakly Luarsabovich Andronikov (the last name spelled also Andronnikov or Andronikashvili, Russian: ???´???? ??????´????? ?????´????? (???????????, ??????????????); 28 September [O.S.
  • 15 September] 1908 – 13 June 1990) was a Russian literature historian, philologist, and media personality.Irakly Andronikov came from a Georgian noble family of Andronikashvili (Andronikov) and was born in Saint Petersburg.
  • His father Luarsab Nikolaevich Andronikov was a lawyer whom the Russian Provisional Government appointed Senate Criminal Department Secretary in 1917.
  • Irakly's mother Yekaterina Gurevich came from an artistic Gurevich-Ilyin family.
  • Irakly's maternal grandfather Yakov Gurevich was the founder of Bestuzhev Courses, the first Russian tertiary school for women.
  • Irakly's grandmother Lyubov Gurevich (née Ilyina) was a daughter of architect Ivan Ivanovich Ilyin (one of the builders of the Grand Kremlin Palace) and an aunt of philosopher Ivan Ilyin.
  • His aunt Lyubov Gurevich and uncle Yakov Yakovlevich Gurevich were notable writers and magazine editors.
  • Irakly's younger brother Elepter Andronikashvili was a notable physicist.In 1918 Luarsab was invited to teach philosophy at Tula State Pedagogical Institute in Tula, Russia.
  • In 1921 the family briefly moved to Moscow and then settled in Tbilisi.
  • In 1925 Irakly graduated from a secondary school in Tbilisi and entered the Faculty of History and Philology at Leningrad State University and the philological department of the Art History Institute.
  • He studied history and philology under Boris Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum, Viktor Zhirmunsky, Lev Shcherba, Yevgeny Tarle.
  • In 1928 he became interested in music and worked as a lecturer for the Leningrad Philharmonic.In 1930 Andronikov graduated from Leningrad State University and started to work for children magazines Chizh and Yozh.
  • From 1934 he worked as a bibliographer for the Leningrad Public Library.
  • He started to study biography and the works of Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov at the university and continued his study while working in the library.
  • He published his first article about Lermontov in 1936 and in 1939 he published his book Lermontov Life.
  • The same year he was admitted to the Union of Soviet Writers.In 1942 Andronikov worked as a correspondent of an Army newspaper on Kalinin Front.In 1946 he obtained his Kandidat Nauk degree for a dissertation about Lermontov.
  • He continued to publish books about Lermontov «???????? ??????????????» (1949), «?????????» (1951), «?????????.
  • ????????????, ??????, ????????» (1952), «????????? ? ?????? ? 1837 ????» (1955).
  • The last book, Lermontov in Georgia in 1837, was considered sufficient to give him the Doktor Nauk degree of Moscow State University (1956).
  • He continued his Lermontov study and in 1967 he received the USSR State Prize for his book «?????????.
  • ???????????? ? ???????» (Lermontov.
  • Research and Findings) published in 1964.
  • Andronikov also was awarded Lenin Prize (1976) for his contributions to Russian culture.Andronikov started to perform public lectures in a writers club in 1935 and soon became enormously popular.
  • In 1954 he started to perform on television (show Andronikov Tells (?????????? ????????????).
  • A number of documentaries there he tells his stories: «??????? ?.
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  • ?.», «???????? ???????? ?????????», «???????? ???????????», «????? ???????????» were published.
  • In 1982 he was awarded People's Artist of the USSR title.
  • He died in Moscow in 1990.

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