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The Berlin Poets' Club (russian: Берлинский кружок поэтов (1928–1933) was a group of Russian émigré poets. Members included: *
Mikhail Gorlin Mikhail Genrikhovich Gorlin ( rus, Михаи́л Ге́нрихович Го́рлин, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ˈɡʲenrʲɪxəvʲɪdʑ ˈɡorlʲɪn, a=Mihail Gyenrihovich Gorlin.ru.vorb.oga; 1909–1943)Raisa Blokh (wife of M. Gorlin) * Vladimir Korvin-Piotrovskii * Nina Korvin-Piotrovskaia * Vladimir Sirin (Nabokov) * Véra Nabokov * Yuri Ofrosimov * Sofiya Pregel * Boris Vilde * Yuri Dzhanumov * Nikolai Belotsvetov * Yevgueni Rabinovich, and some others. The club had to stop its activities in 1933 when the
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s came to power, as many of its members were Jewish. Most of them moved to Paris, where later some of them were killed during
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Literature

* Amory Burchard: ''Klubs der russischen Dichter in Berlin 1920-1941. Institutionen des literarischen Lebens im Exil''. Ed. Otto Sagner, Munich 2001, p. 239-283 ISBN 3-87690-759-4 * Yevgenia Kannak, ''Berlinski kruzhok poetov (1928-1933)''. In: ''Russki almanakh.'' Ed. R. Guerra, S. Shakhovskaya, E. Ternovski. Paris 1981, p. 363–366. * Eugenie Salkind
''Die junge russische Literatur in der Emigration''
In: ''Osteuropa'' 10. 1931. p. 575–590, retrieved 10 June 2020 *
Thomas Urban Thomas Urban (born 20 July 1954) is a German journalist and author of historical books. Education Urban was born Leipzig. His parents were German expellees from Breslau, the capital of the Prussian province of Silesia, which came under Polish ...
: ''Russkiye pisateli v Berline v 20-е gody XX vekа''. Saint Petersburg 2014, p. 263-282 ISBN 978-5-87417-494-1


Sources

Some notes and correspondence from the Club are located in th
Vladimir Korvin-Piotrovskii Papers
at the
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Russian writers in Berlin
(in Russian) Russian literary societies Culture in Berlin 1928 establishments in Germany 1933 disestablishments in Germany {{Russia-culture-stub