Liubov Yakovlevna Gurevich (russian: Любо́вь Я́ковлевна Гуре́вич; November 1, 1866,

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

– October 17, 1940,

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

) was a Russian editor, translator, author, and critic. She has been described as "Russia's most important woman literary journalist." From 1894 to 1917 she was the publisher and chief editor of the monthly journal ''The Northern Herald'' ('' Severny Vestnik''), a leading

Russian symbolist Russian symbolism was an intellectual and artistic movement predominant at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. It arose separately from European symbolism, emphasizing mysticism and ostranenie. Literature Influences Primary ...

publication based in Saint Petersburg. The journal acted as a rallying-point for the Symbolists

Dmitry Merezhkovsky Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky ( rus, Дми́трий Серге́евич Мережко́вский, p=ˈdmʲitrʲɪj sʲɪrˈɡʲejɪvʲɪtɕ mʲɪrʲɪˈʂkofskʲɪj; – December 9, 1941) was a Russian novelist, poet, religious thinker, ...

, Zinaida Gippius, Fyodor Sologub,

Nikolai Minsky Nikolai Minsky and Nikolai Maksimovich Minsky (russian: Никола́й Макси́мович Ми́нский) are pseudonyms of Nikolai Maksimovich Vilenkin (Виле́нкин; 1855–1937), a mystical writer and poet of the Silver Age of R ...

, and

Akim Volynsky Akim Lvovich Volynsky (Аким Львович Волынский, real name Khaim Leybovich Flekser, Хаим Лейбович Флексер; 3 May 1861 – 6 July 1926) was a Russian literary (later theatre and ballet) critic and historian, one ...

. Gurevitch was of mixed social background. Her mother hailed from Russian nobility but her father was a Jewish convert to Russian Orthodoxy. In 1905, Gurevitch joined the

Moscow Art Theatre The Moscow Art Theatre (or MAT; russian: Московский Художественный академический театр (МХАТ), ''Moskovskiy Hudojestvenny Akademicheskiy Teatr'' (МHАТ)) was a theatre company in Moscow. It was f ...

(MAT) as a literary advisor. She worked as an advisor and editor for the seminal Russian theatre practitioner

Konstantin Stanislavski Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavski ( Alekseyev; russian: Константин Сергеевич Станиславский, p=kənstɐnʲˈtʲin sʲɪrˈgʲejɪvʲɪtɕ stənʲɪˈslafskʲɪj; 7 August 1938) was a seminal Russian Soviet Fe ...

for the next 30 years and influenced his writing more than anyone else. Gurevich and Stanislavski had been writing to one another since the MAT's first tour to St Petersburg and became close friends.Benedetti (1999, 154) and Magarshack (1950, 4).

References

Sources

* Benedetti, Jean. 1999. ''Stanislavski: His Life and Art''. Revised edition. Original edition published in 1988. London: Methuen. . * Carnicke, Sharon M. 1998. ''Stanislavsky in Focus''. Russian Theatre Archive Ser. London: Harwood Academic Publishers. . * Magarshack, David. 1950. ''Stanislavsky: A Life.'' London and Boston: Faber, 1986. . * Pyman, Avril. 1994. ''A History of Russian Symbolism.'' Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature ser. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge UP. . * Rabinowitz, Stanley J. 1998. "No Room of Her Own: The Early Life and Career of Liubov' Gurevich." ''The Russian Review'' 57 (April): 236-252. * Slonim, Marc. 1962. ''From Chekhov to the Revolution: Russian Literature 1900-1917.'' Galaxy Book ed. New York: Oxford UP. . Rpt. of first ten chapters of ''Modern Russian Literature: From Chekhov to the Present''. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1953. {{DEFAULTSORT:Gurevich, Liubov Yakovlevna 1866 births 1940 deaths Moscow Art Theatre Russian editors Russian journalists Russian literary critics Women literary critics Russian translators Russian writers People of Jewish descent