Georgy Adamovich | |
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Born |
Moscow, Russian Empire |
19 April 1892
Died | 21 February 1972 Nice, France |
(aged 79)
Occupation | poet translator literary critic |
Nationality |
Russian Polish |
Alma mater | Saint Petersburg State University |
Period | 1916-1972 |
Genre | poetry critical essay philosophical essay |
Literary movement | Acmeism |
Georgy Viktorovich Adamovich (Russian: Гео́ргий Ви́кторович Адамо́вич, IPA: [ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj ˈvʲiktərəvʲɪtɕ ɐdɐˈmovʲɪtɕ] ( listen); 19 April [O.S. 7 April] 1892, Moscow, Russian Empire — 21 February 1972, Nice, France) was a Russian poet of the acmeist school, and a literary critic, translator and memoirist. He also lectured on Russian literature at universities in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Georgy Adamovich was born into the family of senior military officer Viktor Adamovich, an ethnic Pole, who served as head of the Moscow military hospital with the rank of major general. Georgy spent the first nine years of his life in Moscow. "We were a military family; two of my brothers were army officers. My dad said of me, if the family legend is to be believed: "This boy's got nothing officer-like in him- let him be a civilian. And so it was to be," Adamovich later remembered. After his father's death the family moved to Saint Petersburg where Georgy joined the First Gymnasium. In 1910 he became a student at Saint Petersburg State University. He started writing poetry there and in 1915 became a member of the Acmeist circle.