D. S. Mirsky

Dmitry Svyatopolk-Mirsky
BornDmitry Petrovich Svyatopolk-Mirsky
9 September [O.S. 22 August] 1890
Giyovka estate, Lyubotin, Russian Empire (now Liubotyn, Ukraine)
Died7 June 1939(1939-06-07) (aged 48)
Sevvostlag, Soviet Union
Pen nameD. S. Mirsky
NationalityRussian
GenreCriticism
SubjectLiterature

D. S. Mirsky is the English pen-name of Dmitry Petrovich Svyatopolk-Mirsky (Russian: Дми́трий Петро́вич Святопо́лк-Ми́рский), often known as Prince Mirsky (9 September [O.S. 22 August] 1890 – c. 7 June 1939), a Russian political and literary historian who promoted the knowledge and translations of Russian literature in the United Kingdom and of English literature in the Soviet Union. He was born in Kharkov Governorate and died in a Soviet gulag near Magadan.