Metadata: O. I. Gurvich
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- The National Library of Russia
- Holding institution (official language):
- Российская национальная библиотека. Отдел рукописей.
- Postal address:
- 91069, Russia, St. Petersburg, ul. Sadovaia, д. 18, main building; tel.: (812) 310-28-56; fax: (812) 310-61-48; e-mail: office@nlr.ru http://www.nlr.ru
- Reference number:
- F. 1382
- Title:
- O. I. Gurvich
- Title (official language):
- ГУРВИЧ О. И.
- Creator/accumulator:
- O. I. Gurvich
- Date(s):
- 1926/1999
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 34 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- The fonds mainly houses O. I. Gurvich’s manuscripts: collections of poems (1950s-90s); memoiristic essays; philosophical notes (1970s-90s); personal papers; etc. Several of O. I. Gurvich’s works deal with Jewish themes, and in particular, in a poem included in the manuscript collection Confession [Ispoved’], the poet confesses: “After all, I am a Jew with all the blood of my heart” (1988-99). His memoirs include literary portraits of Jewish friends of his from Leningrad and Lithuania: e.g., the book of reminiscences It’s Good That He Lived dedicated to P. A. Iodelis (1909-75), a poet and literary scholar who taught at the Jewish secondary school [gimnaziia] in the city of Virbalis (Verzhbolovo); in 1940-41, Iodelis held the post of director of the Arts Administration of the Lithuanian SSR Council of People’s Commissars; in 1946 he was sentenced to ten years in the camps on charges of abetting a nationalist underground (1977-82). Literary portraits of Jewish acquaintances of O. I. Gurvich are also found in his series of essays and stories Requiem (1975-80); Paths of Remembrance (1977-85); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Oskar Iosifovich Gurvich (pseudonym: Pavel Irinin; born 1921) was a poet. He studied at the Leningrad Mining Institute (geological survey department). At the outset of the Second World War he went to the front as a volunteer; after being wounded in 1943, he was demobilised, and in 1944 returned to his studies at the Mining Institute. In 1941, while still a student, he began working at the A. P. Karpinskii All-Russian Scientific-Research Geology Institute (VSEGEI). In 1945 he was arrested on a false charge of being in violation of article 58.10 (propaganda or agitation containing a call to overthrow, undermine, or weaken Soviet power) and spent a term in camps in Ukhta and Vorkuta. In 1955 he returned to Leningrad and was restored to his status as a student of the Mining Institute. Upon graduating, he worked in various geological institutions in Estonia and Leningrad, including as an instructor, until retiring in 1976. He began to write poetry in 1940.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Gurvich, O. I. (Oskar Iosifovich)
- Iodelis, P. A.
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes a single inventory systematised structurally.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary