Seeking information re Prof. Gleb Struve (fwd)

[Helena Goscilo]

Dear Don,

Not a helpful message--mine, that is, but I simply want to send you
greetings.

Re Struve: while a grad student at Indiana I had the banal misfortune to
take Struve's Nabokov grad seminar.  I then was an impassioned Nabokov fan,
and it's a miracle that Gleb as glub didn't snuff out that enthusiasm.  In
a field glutted with mediocre "teachers," he was one of the most dismal
I've ever had: "teaching" entailed gossip about Nabokov's favorite
breakfast dishes (NOT scrambled eggs, I recall); discussion constituted an
act of revolt; and he slobbered as he mumbled.  I bet this doesn't get into
the memoirs.
Hope you and S. are thriving and continuing to commit sins against the
bourgeoisie!

With zest,
Helena

--On Monday, March 06, 2000, 4:15 PM -0800 Donald Barton Johnson
<chtodel at HUMANITAS.UCSB.EDU> wrote:r

> From: "Evgenij B. Belodubrovskij" <Pushkin at EB2951.spb.edu>
>         The State University of Sankt-Peterburg
> ----------------
>
>         Profesor Gleb Struve at the University of California at Berkeley
> was the preeminent scholar of Russian emigre literature. He was also
> Vladimir Nabokov's long-time friend and did much to promote the latter's
> career.
>         I am writing the first bibiography of Struve and would like
> to hear from Struve's former colleagues, friends, and students with
> information and reminiscences on any aspect of his life in Russia,
> England, and the U.S. Letters, poems, photographs, et cet. would be
> especially welcome.
>
>         I may be contacted at the e-mail address
> above. My regular mailing address is :
>
> 195 274 Sankt-Peterburg
> Prospekt Kul'tury d. 17, kv. 10
> Belodobrovskomu, Evgeniyu
> Russia
>
>                                         With thanks,
>                                         Evgenii Belodubrovskii
>
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