Irakli Luarsabowitsch Andronikow

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Irakli Andronikov Luarsabowitsch ( Russian Ираклий Луарсабович Андроников ; born September 15, jul. / 28. September  1908 greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 11. June 1990 in Moscow ) was a Russian literary scholar and writer .

Life

Andronikow came from the important Georgian aristocratic family Andronikaschwili, which traced back to the emperor Andronikos I. Komnenos of Byzans and after Georgia was annexed to the Russian Empire, the family of the Andronikow princes . His father was the lawyer Prince Luarsab Nikolajewitsch Andronikow , who took part in the February 1917 and October revolutions . His maternal grandfather was the Jewish historian and educator Jakow Grigoryevich Gurevich . Andronikow was the older brother of the physicist Elephter Andronikaschwili and nephew of the publicist Lyubow Jakowlewna Gurewitsch .

When after the October Revolution father as 1918 Andronikows lecturer of history of philosophy at the Pedagogical University in Tula was appointed, the family moved to a small village near Tula. After a short stay in Moscow in 1921 , the family settled in Tbilisi , where Andronikow graduated from school in 1925. He then studied the history of philosophy at the University of Leningrad with Boris Eichenbaum , Viktor Schirmunski , Lev Shcherba , and Yevgeny W. Tarle and at the same time literature at the State Institute for Art History . He graduated from Leningrad University in 1930 with a diploma in literature for journalists .

From 1928 Andronikov emerged as a lecturer at the Leningrad Philharmonic . From 1930 he worked on the children's magazines Igel and Zeisig . From 1934 he worked as a bibliographer in the State Saltykov Shchedrin Library in Leningrad .

In 1935, Andronikov began to appear as a narrator in the Writers' Club in Moscow. He portrayed writers, artists and other people with their characteristics often somewhat humorous through appropriate gestures , facial expressions and language, which made him very well known. He performed with it until the 1950s. The persons depicted included in particular AN Tolstoy , SJ Marschak , II Sollertinski , Fritz Stiedry , Evgeni Tarle, Otto Schmidt , AA Fadejew , WW Iwanow and WB Schklowski .

In 1931, when Andronikow was working as secretary in the children's department of GosIsdat publishing house, he was arrested along with Daniil Charms , Alexander Vwedensky and other members of the OBERIU for participating in an anti-Soviet group ( case no. 4246 ). Shortly afterwards, he was the only one released for lack of evidence.

Andronikow began to study the work of MJ Lermontov during his studies . In 1936 he published a first essay on Lermontov's biography in the University of Tbilisi Writings No. 1. In 1939 his book The Life of Lermontov was published . In the same year he was accepted into the Union of Writers of the USSR . During the German-Soviet War in 1942 he worked as a literary assistant for the newspaper Vorwärts gegen den Feind on the Kalinin Front .

In 1947 Andronikow successfully defended his candidate dissertation On Lermontow: Research Results . In 1948 his book Lermontow was published. New results . Further essays and books on Lermontow followed. In 1949 he became a member of the CPSU . His monograph Lermontov 1837 in Georgia was recognized by the University of Moscow as a doctoral thesis in 1956 , with which he was awarded a doctorate in philosophical sciences .

In 1954, Andronikov began performing a cycle of his stories on the Central Television of the USSR .

In 1964 Andronikow published the book Lermontow. Investigations and findings with which he summarized his many years of historical-literary research. He contributed significantly to the establishment of the Lermontow Encyclopedia , which appeared in 1981 and was one of the editors of which he was then.

Andronikov suffered from Parkinson's disease for many years . He was married to the actress Wiwiana Abelewna geb. Robinson (1910-1995) and had two daughters. He was buried in Moscow's Vvedenskoye Cemetery.

The minor planet (2294) Andronikov was named after Andronikov.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Л. Б. Вольфцун, Э. Э. Найдич: Андроников (Андроникашвили) Ираклий Луарсабович (Биографический словарь, т. 1–4, accessed January 31, 2017).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Фатех Вергасов: Ираклий Луарсабович Андронникашвили - Андронников (accessed January 31, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Andronikow, Irakli Luarsabowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Андроников, Ираклий Луарсабович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Georgian literary scholar and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1990
Place of death Moscow