Abram Sakharovich Leschnew

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Abram Sakharovich Leschnew ( Russian Абрам Захарович Лежнев , actually Abram Selikowitsch Gorelik ; * 1893 in Parytschy , Minsk governorate , today Homelskaja Woblasz , Belarus ; † February 8, 1938 in the Moscow Oblast critic) was a.

Leschnew studied medicine in Geneva and graduated from the Medical Institute of Yekaterinoslav in 1922 . From the mid-1920s until its dissolution in 1932, Leschnew was one of the most important literary critics of the Perewal group of authors . He wrote the works Problems of Literature and Literary Criticism (1926), About Art (1936) and Pushkin's Prose (1937). In the course of the Stalin Purges , Leschnew was arrested on November 5, 1937 and shot on February 8, 1938. In 1956 he was rehabilitated.

Works (selection)

  • «Вопросы литературы и критики» ( Voprosy literatury i kritiki , 1926)
  • «Современники» ( Sovremenniki , 1927)
  • «Литературные будни» ( Literaturnye budni , 1929)
  • «Литература революционного десятилетия. 1917–27 » ( Literatura revoljucionnogo desjatiletija. 1917–27 , together with D. Gorbow, 1929)
  • "Деревянный ключ" ( Derevjannyj ključ , 1932)
  • «Два поэта. Гейне и Тютчев » ( Dva poėta. Gejne i Tjutčev , 1934)
  • «Проза Пушкина» ( Proza Puškina , 1937); English: "Pushkin's Prose" , ISBN 0882336282

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Article in the Jewish Encyclopedia.Retrieved May 14, 2011
  2. ↑ Entry in the list of victims of the Stalinist terror on listmemo.ru.Retrieved on May 14, 2011

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personal data
SURNAME Leschnew, Abram Sakharovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gorelik, Abram Selikowitsch (real name); Lezhnev, Abram Zakharovich (English transcription); Ležnev, Abram Zacharovič (scientific transliteration); Лежнев, Абрам Захарович (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Parychy , Minsk Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1938
Place of death Moscow Oblast