Ginzburg L.Y. (1902-1990), Historian of Literature

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GINZBURG Lidia Yakovlevna (1902-1990, Leningrad), literary critic, prose writer, Ph.D. in Philosophy (1950). Ginzburg graduated from the Department of Philology of the Institute of Art History in 1926. She took seminars with Y. N. Tynyanov and B. M. Eichenbaum, and began publishing books in 1926 (the novel Pinkerton Agency, 1932). She taught at various Leningrad Institution for higher education, and lived in Leningrad during the siege years of 1941-44. Worked with the Leningrad Radio Committee, and wrote Notes of a Blockaded Man. She also wrote about Russian and foreign literature, and biographies on A. A. Akhmatova, E. G. Bagritsky, N. A. Zabolotsky, and Tynyanov. Ginzburg founded a new genre of hybrid prose in her creative work (Man at a Writing Table, 1989). She lived at 27 Shvernika Avenue (today 2nd Murinsky Avenue), and was buried at the Komarovskoe Cemetery.

References: Л. Я. Гинзбург: Воспоминания. Письма. Статьи. Заметки // НЛО. 2001. № 49. С. 305-426; Кушнер А. С. Прямой разговор о жизни // Гинзбург Л. Я. Записные книжки. Воспоминания. Эссе. СПб., 2002. С. 5-10.

M. V. Zakharova. Akhmatova Anna Andreevna
Bagritsky (real name Dzyubin) Eduard Georgievich
Eichenbaum Boris Mikhailovich
Ginzburg Lidia Yakovlevna
Tynyanov Yury Nikolaevich
Zabolotsky Nikolay Alexeevich
2nd Murinsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 27
Л. Я. Гинзбург: Воспоминания. Письма. Статьи. Заметки // Новое лит. обозрение, 2001
Кушнер А. С. Прямой разговор о жизни // Гинзбург Л. Я. Записные книжки. Воспоминания. Эссе. СПб., 2002 Institute of Art History
Siege of 1941-44
Komorovskoe Cemetery