George Grebenstchikoff
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Biographical Sketch
George Dmitrievich Grebenstchikoff (Russian: Георгий Дмитриевич Гребенщиков) (6 May [24 April Old Style] 1883 – 11 January 1964) was a writer and professor of Russian literature. He was born in the TomskTomsk
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Oblast of Russia
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and married Tatiana Denisovna Stadnik in 1917.
Grebenstchikoff published segments of his serialized novel Churaevy before emigrating to Paris (1920) and then the United States (1924). In 1925 he and Ilia Tolstoi founded the Churaevka artists' colony in Southbury, Connecticut, where Grebenstchikoff also directed the Alatas Publishing House. The Grebenstchikoffs later moved to Florida
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, where George taught creative writing and Russian literature at Florida Southern College
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from 1941 to 1952.
In addition to Churaevy, Grebenstchikoff's principal writings include the novel The Turbulent Giant (1940) and Egorkina zhizn, an autobiographical work.
Literary Archives
The George and Tatiana Grebenstchikoff Papers at the University of Minnesota Immigration History Research Center (collection number IHRC809) consists of seventeen linear feet of correspondence, diaries, photographs, manuscripts, audio recordings and printed material.Additional archival material can be found in the Alyce Batchelder Collection of George Grebenstchikoff. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.