Igor Vishnevetsky Explained

Igor Vishnevetsky
Birth Name:	Igor Georgievich Vishnevetsky
Native Name:	Игорь Георгиевич Вишневецкий
Birth Date:	1964 1, df=yes
Birth Place:	Rostov-on-Don, USSR
Occupation:	Poet, novelist, scholar, filmmaker, educator
Children:	Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
Alma Mater:	Moscow State University Brown University

Igor Georgievich Vishnevetsky (Russian: link=no|Игорь Георгиевич Вишневецкий; born 5 January 1964)^[1] is a Russian-born poet, novelist, screenwriter, and editor. He has been a contributor and editor in numerous literary journals, anthologies, and scholarly periodicals since the 1980s. Some of his work has been published in English, including a translated version of his first novel, Leningrad (2010).

Biography

Igor Vishnevetsky was born in Rostov-on-Don in 1964 to Georgiy and Alla Vishnevetsky. Vishnevetsky originally aspired to become a composer. He studied piano performance in school and audited music theory courses at Rostov State Rachmaninoff Conservatory before attending Moscow State University to pursue a degree in philology. After graduating in 1986, Vishnevetsky became an active member of the poetry and art scenes in Moscow and St. Petersburg prior to the break-up of the Soviet Union.

Vishnevetsky emigrated to the United States in 1992. Since that time his creative work has been done chiefly in North America.

In 1996 he received a Ph.D. in Russian Literature from the Department of Slavic Languages of Brown University. Subsequently, he taught at Emory University for five years. In the 2000s, he has also become a notable music historian, and is considered an authority on Sergei Prokofiev and the Russian-American composer Vladimir Dukelsky.

He also was a visiting professor of Russian and Film at Carnegie Mellon University. During this time, he wrote his experimental novel Leningrad which describes the dehumanizing effects of the Finno-German siege of the city during World War II and deals with transformation of former Russian capital into a Soviet city. Praised for its insights into the minds of the people who experienced the collapse of everything associated with humanity, Leningrad won a 2010 award for the best fiction published in Russia's leading literary periodical Novyi mir. In 2012 it won a prestigious "New Verbal Art (Novaya Slovesnost', or NoS)" literary award.

Since 2010 he had been working on a film version of Leningrad.^[2] ^[3] The film was completed in 2014 (a slightly shorter version in 2015) and received a number of awards.^[4] ^[5] Film historian and critic Andrei Plakhov called it "an absolutely amazing experiment,",^[6] while film critic Evgeny Maisel considered Visnevetsky's film "a true challenge to contemporary professional film production."^[7] Since 2018 he teaches English and Russian literature at the Franciscan University of Steubenville.^[8]

Vishnevetsky is an Eastern Orthodox Christian.^[8] His son is film critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky.

Bibliography

Collected poetry

Poems (Stikhotvoreniya). Moscow: ALVA-XXI, 1992. 42 pp.
Threefold Vision (Troynoe zrenie). New York: Slovo/Word, 1997. 88 pp.
Air Mail: Poems 1996-2001 (Vozdushnaya pochta: Stikhi 1996–2001). Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2001. 96 pp.
West of the Sun (Na zapad solntsa). Moscow: Nauka; Russkiy Gulliver, 2006. 278 pp.
First Snow (Pervosnezhye). Moscow: Russkiy Gulliver, 2008. 76 pp.
Rhymologion (Stikhoslov). Moscow: Ikar, 2008. 126 pp.
Collected Poems 2002-2020 (Sobranie strikhotvorenii 2002–2020). Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2021. 308 pp.

Fiction

Leningrad: povest'. Moscow: Vremya, 2012. 160 pp.
Leningrad: A novel. Translated by Andrew Bromfield. Champaign - London - Dublin: Dalkey Archive Press, 2013. 124 pp.
Leningrad. Translated into Macedonian by Мirjana Naumovski. Skopje: Bata pres, 2014. 154 pp.
Non-Elective Affinities (Neizbiratelinoe srodstvo[: сollected prose – novels ''Leningrad'' (2009), ''Islands in the Lagoon / Ostrova v lagune'' (2012), ''Non-Elective Affinities / Neizbiratelinoe srodstvo'' (2013-2017), short fiction ''Poet Who Was Not Forgotten / Nezabytyi poet'' (2012)]). Moscow: EKSMO, 2018. 384 pp.
Leningrad. Traduzione a cura di Daniela Rizzi e Luisa Ruvoletto. Venezia: Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina, 2019. 216 pp.
Le affinità non elettive: romanzo. Anno 1835. Traduzione, postfazione e cura di Iris Karafillidis; prefazione di Stefano Garzonio. Pisa: Pisa University Press, 2023. 216 pp.

Academic works (selected)

Tragic Subject in Action: Andrei Bely (Tragicheskiy sub'yekt v deystvii: Andrey Belyi). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2000. 214 pp.
Sergei Solovyov as a Historian of Philosophy and Culture. In S. M. Solovyov. Vladimir Solovyov: His Life and Creative Evolution. Vol. 1 (Fairfax, Va.: Eastern Christian Publications, 2001): IX-XXII.
Andrei Bely and Sergei Solovyov in Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 295 (Thomson/Gale, 2004): 63–80, 369–376.
The "Eurasianist Tendency" in the Music of the 1920s and 1930s («Evraziyskoe uklonenie» v muzyke 1920-kh -1930-kh godov). Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2005. 512 pp.
Sergei Prokofiev (Sergey Prokof'ev). Moscow: Molodaya gvardiya, 2009. 704 pp.
Arseny Tarkovsky in Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 359 (Gale, 2011): 265–280.
The Literary Fate of Vasiliy Kondrat'ev (Literaturnaya sud'ba Vasiliya Konrdat'eva), Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 3/157 (2019): 239-267
Three Contemporary Russian Poets and Biblical Tradition: Sergey Zavyalov, Natalia Chernykh, Jaan Kaplinski, Religions, 11/13 (2022)

Filmography

Leningrad (2015)

Notes and References

Web site: Игорь Вишневецкий. Поэт, филолог. Новая литературная карта.
Web site: Интервью с победителем премии "НОС"-2011 писателем Игорем Вишневецким . 19 March 2013 . dead . https://archive.today/20130417172238/http://www.prokhorovfund.ru/fund/news/695/?sphrase_id=10521 . 17 April 2013 .
News: Игорь Вишневецкий – лауреат премии НОС. Радио Свобода. 16 February 2012 . Волчек . Дмитрий . Кобрин . Кирилл .
Web site: 12-й "Дух огня" завершился победой румынской ретро-драмы.
Web site: Ейск-2015. О доблестях, о подвигах, о славе.
Web site: Кинокритик Андрей Плахов: югорчане любопытны и не зашорены | Новостной портал ugra-news.ru . 11 August 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160915132339/http://old.ugra-news.ru/article/39532 . 15 September 2016 .
Web site: «Дух огня» 2014. Существования позор.
News: Russian author shares experience, life story through teaching. The Troubador. Franciscan University of Steubenville. Pawsey. Maggie. 5 December 2018. 14 December 2019.