Seeking information re Prof. Gleb Struve (fwd)

[Helena Goscilo]

List members,

Sorry for sending to the list: the assessment stands, but the misaddressing
is regretted.

HG

--On Tuesday, March 07, 2000, 12:24 AM -0500 Helena Goscilo
<goscilo+ at pitt.edu> wrote:r

> 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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