Comprises: (1) Tape-recorded and transcribed interviews about D.S. Mirsky with Dorothy Galton, Janko Lavrin, and Roy Pascal; (2) D.S. Mirsky, Jane Ellen Harrison and Russia, Cambridge, 1930; (3) Copy of the death certificate of E.A. Sviatopolk-Mirskaia (ne Bobrinskaia; 1864-1926)
Prince D. S. Mirsky papers
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- ReferenceGB 206 MS 900
- Dates of Creation1926, 1930, 1974, 1998
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- Language of MaterialEnglish French
- Physical Description63 ff., 2 tapes, 1 cassettes, 1 mini-cassette, manuscript, typescript, and printed
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
D. S. Mirsky (Prince Dmitrii Petrovich Sviatopolk-Mirskii) (1890-1939) was a literary critic and teacher of Russian language and literature at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, and a member of the post-revolutionary Russian migr community in Great Britain. See G. S. Smith, D. S. Mirsky: A Russian-English Life, 1890-1939 (Oxford, 2000)
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Acquisition Information
The gift of Gerald Smith, May 1982, April 1994; Richard Davies, July 1998
Note
English, French
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