Autograph Of Lev Ozerov. Kedrin D. Beauty.

Autograph Of Lev Ozerov. Kedrin D. Beauty.

M. Fiction. 1965, p. 284 Hardcover, dust jacket, size 13.5 x 17 cm. Very good condition, small defects in the dust jacket.

Lev Adolfovich Ozerov (real name-Goldberg; 1914-1996) — Russian Soviet poet and translator, critic, literary critic. Originally published under his own name, Lev Goldberg, and the literary pseudonyms Lev Berg and L. Kornev.

Born on August 10 (August 23), 1914 in Kiev in the family of pharmacist Adolf (Aizik) And Sophia G. Goldberg. He lived first on Zlatoustovskaya street, and then on Tarasovskaya street. He studied at school No. 25. In 1934, he moved to Moscow. He graduated from MIFLEY (1939) and its postgraduate program (1941), and defended his PhD thesis.

Participant of the great Patriotic war, military journalist. From 1943 to the last days of his life he taught at the Literary Institute, Professor (since 1979) of the Department of literary translation, doctor of Philology.

The first publication of poems in 1932, the first book published in 1940. She published more than 20 collections of a lifetime. He published many translations of poetry, mainly from Ukrainian (T. G. Shevchenko and others), Lithuanian (K. Borut, A. T. venclov, E. Mezhelaitis and others), Yiddish (S. Z. Galkin and others) and other languages of the peoples of the USSR.

Author of a number of books and articles about Russian and Ukrainian poetry, including the works of F. I. Tyutchev, A. A. FET, B. L. Pasternak, as well as memoir essays, including about A. A. Akhmatova, N. A. Zabolotsky and others. Ozerov's article "Poems of Anna Akhmatova", published on June 23, 1959 in Literaturnaya Gazeta, is the first review of her poetry after many years of silence. Lev Ozerov also did a lot to preserve the creative heritage and to publish poets of his generation who died in the war or during the years of Stalin's repressions, or simply died early (including I. L. Ozerov). Selvinsky, A. Kochetkov, D. B. Kedrin, G. N. Abaldueva).

Honored cultural worker of the Lithuanian SSR (1980), winner of the Arion magazine award (1994). 

He died on March 18, 1996. He was buried in Moscow at the Golovinsky cemetery.