Vsevolod Nikolayevich Petrov

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Vsevolod Nikolajewitsch Petrow ( Russian Всеволод Николаевич Петров ; * 1912 in the Russian Empire , † 1978 in the Soviet Union ) was a Russian art historian .

Life

Vsevolod Nikolayevich Petrov was born into a noble family in Petersburg. Petrov worked as an art historian at the Russian Museum in Leningrad . He took part in the Second World War as an officer in the Red Army . Petrov published monographs on Russian art and articles in anthologies and magazines. He was a close collaborator of the art historian Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Punin (1888–1953), who was deported to the Gulag ( Vorkuta labor camp ) in 1949 after he had described a large part of Lenin monuments and portraits as "styleless". In the course of the subsequent Stalinist hunt, Vsevolod Petrov was also dismissed.

His novella Die Manon Lescaut von Turdej , written in 1946, was published posthumously in 2006 in the magazine Nowy Mir . In 2013, the German version (translated by Daniel Jurjew for Weidle Verlag ) was awarded the book prize of the independent German-language publishers ( hotlist ).

Fonts (selection)

  • Miracles (stories). Translation and epilogue by Daniel Jurjew. Friedenauer Presse, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-932109-88-1 .
  • The Manon Lescaut from Turdej . Translated from the Russian by Daniel Jurjew. Job comment from Olga Martynova . Afterword by Oleg Yuryev . Weidle, Bonn 2012. ISBN 978-3-938803-48-6 .
  • Russian art nouveau. The world of art and Diaghilev's painters . Ed. by Irina Kharitonova. Parkstone Press, Bournemouth 1997. ISBN 1-85995-350-6 .
  • with Aleksandr Abramovich Kamensky: World of Art. Association of Russian Artists at the Beginning of the 20th Century . Translated from the Russian by Hans-Joachim Grimm and Galina Bajewa, editing by Irina Kharitonova, editor of the German edition, Roman Äiwadis. Aurora-Kunstverlag, Leningrad 1991. ISBN 5-7300-0217-3 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Cammann: Love in times of war. A discovery of the century: Vsevolod Petrov's enchanting novel “The Manon Lescaut of Turdej” . In: Die Zeit, January 17, 2013, p. 43.
  2. ↑ Jörg Plath: Der Stamm der Flammenden Menschen , in NZZ, February 23, 2013, p. 28.
personal data
SURNAME Petrov, Vsevolod Nikolaevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petrov, Vsevolod; Petrov, VN; Петров, Всеволод Николаевич (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian art historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH 1978
Place of death Soviet Union