Liubov Gurevich

Liubov Gurevich.

Liubov Yakovlevna Gurevich (Russian: Любо́вь Я́ковлевна Гуре́вич; November 1, 1866, Saint Petersburg – October 17, 1940, Moscow) was a Russian editor, translator, author, and critic.[1] She has been described as "Russia's most important woman literary journalist."[2] From 1894 to 1917 she was the publisher and chief editor of the monthly journal The Northern Herald (Severny Vestnik), a leading Russian symbolist publication based in Saint Petersburg.[3] The journal acted as a rallying-point for the Symbolists Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Zinaida Gippius, Fyodor Sologub, Nikolai Minsky, and Akim Volynsky.[4]

Gurevitch was of mixed social background. Her mother hailed from Russian nobility but her father was a Jewish convert to Russian Orthodoxy.[5]

In 1905, Gurevitch joined the Moscow Art Theatre (MAT) as a literary advisor.[6] She worked as an advisor and editor for the seminal Russian theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski for the next 30 years and influenced his writing more than anyone else.[7] Gurevich and Stanislavski had been writing to one another since the MAT's first tour to St Petersburg and became close friends.[8]

  1. ^ Carnicke (1998, 73) and Rabinowitz (1998, 236).
  2. ^ Rabinowitz (1998, 236).
  3. ^ Carnicke (1998, 75), Pyman (1994, 19), Rabinowitz (1998, 236), and Slonim (1962, 86).
  4. ^ Slonim (1962, 86).
  5. ^ Ruthchild, R. "Writing for Their Rights: Four Feminist Journalists: Mariia Chekhova, Liubov’ Gurevich, Mariia Pokrovskaia, and Ariadna Tyrkova" in An Improper Profession. De Gruyter.
  6. ^ Benedetti (1999, 154) and Carnicke (1998, 75).
  7. ^ Benedetti (1999, 154) and Carnicke (1998, 74).
  8. ^ Benedetti (1999, 154) and Magarshack (1950, 4).