Lev Anninsky

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Lev Anninsky
USSR
Died6 November 2019(2019-11-06) (aged 85)
Moscow, Russia

Lev Alexandrovich Anninsky (Russian: Лев Александрович Аннинский, 7 April 1934 – 6 November 2019) was a Soviet and Russian literary critic, historian, publicist, essayist and author of more than 30 books.[1][2] He was also a scriptwriter, and as such the three times TEFI laureate (1996 and 2004, twice).[3]

Biography

Anninsky was born in

War and was gone missing. As Anninsky learned years later, he got injured during the German aviation raid in mid-1942 near Polotsk, was captured and was later shot dead by the Ukrainian polizei.[4] Anninsky's mother taught chemistry in a technical college for the rest of her life.[1]

In 1956, still a student at the

CPSU decided to "brush the ideology up" in the Soviet academic circles and Anninsky found out that to re-join the university he'll have to do some practical work first. He spent half a year in the Sovetsky Soyuz magazine, got fired, joined the Literaturnaya Gazeta (1957-1960), then Znamya magazine (1960-1967). In 1965 The Nut's Core, his first major collection of critical essays came out.[2]

Upon signing a letter supporting the

Novy mir, the two magazines belonging to the competing ('patriots'/'liberals') factions. Anninsky has never joined the Soviet Communist Party.[2]

The 1970s saw the publication of several books by Anninsky, among them Betrothed to the Idea (on

Melnikov-Pechersky and Leskov.[2]

In 1990-1992, Anninsky worked in Literaturnoye obozrenye (The Literature Review), then joined the newly formed Rodina magazine and in 1998 became the editor of the short-lived Vremya i my (Time And Us) project. Among his works of the time were The Flying Curtain (Essays on Georgian literature, 1990), Men of the Sixties and Our Times (subtitled: "The Cinema that Made History and the One that Never Did," 1991), The Bards (1999). His 1997 book The Silver and the Black (subtitled: "The Russian, the Soviet, the Slavic and the Worldly in the Silver Age poetry"), on the 12 poets of the early 20th century, formed the basis for the TV documentary series of the same title. Directed by Vitaly Maksimov and premiered on

Kultura TV in 2004, it earned Anninsky two TEFIs (in "The Best Script" and "The Best TV Documentary" categories). In 2010, Lev Anninsky received the "White Elephant" (Слон), the Russian Guild of Film Critics' award.[6] Since 2003, Anninsky had been a member of the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award jury.[7]

Anninsky died on 6 November 2019.[8]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Лев Александрович Аннинский". peoples.ru. Retrieved 2012-03-01.
  2. ^ a b c d "Лев Аннинский". The Magazine Hall Dictionary. Russia: the World of Literature. Retrieved 2012-03-01.
  3. ^ a b "Лев Аннинский". kino-teatr.ru / Soviet Child actors. Retrieved 2012-03-01.
  4. ^ a b c Vladimir Nordwick Lev Anninsky's Last Interview. April 2016 [re-issued 6 November 2019]. Rodina Magazine
  5. ^ "Лев Аннинский". TV Kultura. Archived from the original on 2012-02-04. Retrieved 2012-03-01.
  6. ^ The Slon Awards 2010. newstube.ru.
  7. ^ "russ.ru Это критика". old.russ.ru.
  8. ^ "Умер литературовед Лев Аннинский". Izvestiya (in Russian). 2019-11-06.

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