Nikita Struve
Nikita Alexeyevich Struve was a French author and translator of Russian descent, specializing in the study of Russian émigrés.Biography
Struve was part of the Struve family being the grandson of Peter Berngardovich Struve and the son of Alekseievich Struve, founder of an important russian library at Paris and brother of Gleb Struve. He was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, a suburb of Paris, He graduated from and taught Russian at the Sorbonne in the 1950s. In 1963, Struve published a book dedicated to the history of the Church under the Soviet regime. This book has been translated into 5 languages. In 1979 Struve defended his doctoral dissertation on Osip Mandelstam. In the same year he became a full professor at the University of Paris X, and later head of the Department of Slavic Studies.
In 1978 he headed the Russian section of the YMCA Press publisher. In 1991 he opened the publishing house "Russian way" in Moscow. He translated into French the poetry of Pushkin, Lermontov, Afanasy Fet, Akhmatova and other Russian poets. In 1996 he wrote the fundamental study "70 years of the Russian emigration". He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the St. Filaret Orthodox Christian Institute, Professor of the University of Paris-Nanterre, Chief editor of "Bulletin of Russian Christian Movement" magazine and «Le messager orthodoxe».
A Great influence on the Struve as a researcher of the history of Russian culture was his private familiarity with Ivan Bunin, Alexei Remizov, Boris Zaitsev, Semyon Frank, Anna Akhmatova and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.Family
Struve was married to Maria Alexandrovna Struve ; they had three children, Daniel Struve , Blandine Lopoukhine and Melanie Rakovitch .Works
French language
- Les chrétiens en URSS. — Paris: Seuil, 1963. — 374 p.
- Anthologie de la poésie russe. La Renaissance du XXe siècle. Introduction, chois, traduction et notes. — Paris, 1970. — 254 p..
- Ossip Mandelstam: la voix, l'idée, le destin. — Paris, 1982. — 302 p.
- Anthologie de la poésie russe du XIXe siècle. Introduction, choix, traduction et notes. — Paris, 1994. — 260 p.
- Soixante-dix ans d'émigration russe. — Paris, 1996. — 302 p.
Russian language
- Осип Мандельштам. — Лондон, 1988. — 336 с..
- Православие и культура. — М.: Христианск. изд-во, 1992. — 337 с.
This article is translated from Russian Language WikipediaAwards
