Lozinsky M.L. (1886-1955), poet, translator

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LOZINSKY Mikhail Leonidovich (1886, Gatchina of St. Petersburg Province - 1955, Leningrad), poet, translator. Graduated from the First Petersburg Gymnasium (1904), the Faculty of Law of Petersburg University (1909), took a course at Slavonic-Russian Department of Historical-Philological Faculty. In the 1910s was the secretary of Apollon journal's editor, member of the Guild of Poets, editor of Giperborey journal, meetings of its editorial staff were held in 1912-13 at the flats of Lozinsky (2 Volkhovskoi Lane; from the autumn of 1913 at 28/26 Maly Avenue of Petrogradskaya Side). In 1916 he published his only verse collection Mountain Spring (2nd edition, 1922). In 1914-38 worked in the Public Library (the main librarian, consultant, and the head of fine arts department). A member of editorial board of the World Literature Publishing house. Translated works by Shakespeare, P. Corneille, J. Moliere, F. Lope de Vega and many others. He was awarded the Stalin Prize (1946) for the translation of The Divine Comedy by Dante. Wrote a number of works on theory of translation. In 1915-55 lived at 73-75 Kamennoostrovsky Avenue (memorial plaque). Buried at Literatorskie Mostki.

References: Эткинд Е. Г. Творчество М. Лозинского // Багровое светило: Стихи зарубеж. поэтов в пер. М. Лозинского. М., 1974. С. 5-22; Эльзон М. Д. Лозинский Михаил Леонидович // Сотрудники Российской национальной библиотеки - деятели науки и культуры: Биогр. слов. СПб., 1995. Т. 1. С. 327-329; Ахматова А. А. Сочинения: В 2 т. М., 1999. Т. 2. С. 138-143.

T. M. Dvinyatina. Corneille Pierre
Dante Alighieri
Lope de Vega Carpio (Lope Felix de)
Lozinsky Mikhail Leonidovich
Moliere Jean-Baptiste
Shakespeare William
Stalin (real name Dzhugashvili) Iosif Vissarionovich
Kamennoostrovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 73
Kamennoostrovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 75
Maly Ave of Petrogradskaya Storona/Saint Petersburg, city, house 26/28
Volkhovsky Lane/Saint Petersburg, city, house 2
Эткинд Е. Г. Творчество М. Лозинского // Багровое светило: Стихи зарубеж. поэтов в пер. М. Лозинского. М., 1974
Эльзон М. Д. Лозинский Михаил Леонидович // Сотрудники Российской национальной библиотеки - деятели науки и культуры: Биогр. слов. СПб., 1995
Ахматова А. А. Сочинения: В 2 т. М., 1999 Apollon (Apollo), journal
Poets Guild
Giperborey (Hyperborean), publishing house and journal, 1914-18
Russian National Library
World of Literature, publishing house, 1918-1924
Literatorskie (Literary) Mostki, the museum-necropolis