D. S. Mirsky is the English pen-name of Dmitry Petrovich Svyatopolk-Mirsky (Russian: Дми́трий Петро́вич Святопо́лк-Ми́рский), often known as Prince Mirsky...

name Boris Mirsky D. S. Mirsky (1890–1939), Russian historian and critic Eytan Mirsky (born 1961), American singer-songwriter Jeannette Mirsky (1903–1987)...

Leib-Guards Hussars. He was the father to literary historian D. S. Mirsky. Svyatopolk-Mirsky took part in the Russo-Turkish War, 1877–78 and was decorated...

may and must save humanity, are enlightenment, beauty, and sympathy. — D. S. Mirsky The Childhood of Maxim Gorky, Gorky 2: My Apprenticeship, Gorky 3: My...

fermentation incarnate, on a foundation of placidly ambitious inferiority" (D. S. Mirsky). The publication of the play led to a great outcry in the reactionary...

of Sviatopolk-Mirsky (Belarusian: Святаполк-Мірскі, romanized: Svjatapołk-Mirski, Russian: Святополк-Мирский, romanized: Svyatopolk-Mirsky, Polish: Światopełk-Mirski...

still unrealised elsewhere." At a time of intense public excitement, as D. S. Mirsky pointed out, Leskov was "absorbed by the public interest as much as anyone...

the novel that is remembered. In their studies of Gogol, Andrey Bely, D. S. Mirsky, Vladimir Nabokov, and other modernist critics rejected the commonly...

[citation needed] D.S. Mirsky. A History of Russian Literature. Northwestern University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-8101-1679-0. p. 155. Mirsky, p. 191 Andrey Bely...

Revolution and "unmodern interest to human psychology" (as noted by D. S. Mirsky). He had associations with fellow Russian writers Leo Tolstoy and Anton...

and his demon Nedotykomka are the personifications of poshlost'. As D. S. Mirsky wrote in 1925, "Peredonov has become the most famous and memorable character...

was released in 1988 to mark the millennium of Christianity in Russia. D. S. Mirsky called Ivan "a pamphleteer of genius". The letters are often the only...

friend, Prince D. S. Mirsky. Carr stumbled into Prince Mirsky on the streets of Leningrad (modern Saint Petersburg), and despite Prince Mirsky's best efforts...

word to the Devil; Solzhenitsyn, to Western-influenced young people. D. S. Mirsky was an early user of the word in English in writing about Gogol; he defined...

Enchanted Wanderer as one of Leskov's masterpieces where, according to D.S. Mirsky, the author used his unique gift of a storyteller to the fullest effect...

Family is regarded as a classic of Russian literature. According to D. S. Mirsky, it is "the gloomiest book in all Russian literature", and "this one...

earned him a place in the history of Russian literature, as assessed by D. S. Mirsky: A few private letters and an instruction to his falconers is all we...

recounted in the Story of the Taking of Pskov (1510), which was lauded by D. S. Mirsky as "one of the most beautiful short stories of Old Russia. The history...

Who Was Tired" is similar to Chekhov's "Sleepy". The Russian critic D. S. Mirsky, who lived in England, explained Chekhov's popularity in that country...

as Vasily Kalinnikov, Eduard Nápravník, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. D. S. Mirsky wrote that his "principal claim to attention" was in "his realistic poems...

death in 1911 and received high praise from Tolstoy's contemporaries. D. S. Mirsky considered it "a masterpiece of rare perfection." Alyosha's simple life...

comedic tale for all ages. In A History of Russian Literature, the critic D. S. Mirsky writes: "The Nose is a piece of sheer play, almost sheer nonsense. In...

his experimental skaz techniques and "underground Dostoevskianism". As D. S. Mirsky notes, Remizov's works influenced Yevgeny Zamyatin, Aleksey Nikolayevich...

street, but he is filled with Poshlost, (defined by literary historian D. S. Mirsky as "'self-satisfied inferiority,' moral and spiritual.") This is exemplified...

trinity to which probably no foreign literature has anything to compare. — D. S. Mirsky Frank, Joseph (1984). Dostoevsky. The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859 (1st ed...

(1969), N. Yeselev (1976), and N. Yanovsky (1984). The exile critic D. S. Mirsky wrote of him in a 1924 overview of "Russian fiction since Chekhov": "Vyacheslav...

attractive poets," wrote Tchaykovsky. Assessing Tolstoy's poetry as a whole, D. S. Mirsky wrote: Tolstoy, like Maykov and Polonsky, was an eclectic, but his eclecticism...

Russian literature that are most full of the most various riches. — D. S. Mirsky Despite longueurs and occasional lack of focus, The Silver Dove is a...

(1991). Trotsky in exile. pp. 231–232. Smith, Gerald Stanton (2000). D. S. Mirsky: A Russian-English Life, 1890–1939. Oxford University Press. p. 231....

fourteen years he was to be a wanderer in tedious and fruitless mazes. — D. S. Mirsky Twenty-Six Men and a Girl|Plot & Theme| Britannica. Accessed 20 December...