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Mihail Leonidovich Lozinskiy
Михаил Лозинский
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20 July 1886 - 31 January 1955
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Mikhail Leonidovich Lozinsky is a major Soviet translator of works of art and poet, winner of the Stalin Prize. He is one of the most experienced Soviet translators of the 20th century. His granddaughters are famous Russian writers Natalia Tolstaya and Tatiana Tolstaya . He was born in 1886 in Gatchina and spent his whole life in St. Petersburg. He graduated from St. Petersburg University, where he first received a law degree, and after another five years he attended the Faculty of History and Philology
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Mikhail Leonidovich Lozinsky is a major Soviet translator of works of art and poet, winner of the Stalin Prize. He is one of the most experienced Soviet translators of the 20th century. His granddaughters are famous Russian writers Natalia Tolstaya and
Nikolai Gumilev To whom he was the closest friend, Anna Akhmatova, was friends with Osip Mandelstam. Even before the revolution, he published his poems, which, unfortunately, despite his impeccable skill, could not attract the attention of readers. So Lozinski decided to focus on literary translations of poetry. In his diary, Blok once noted that some of Lozinski’s translations were better than those of Zhukovsky, who had been seen as a model for Russian verse by translators for generations.
The translator is best known for his translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy between 1939 and 1945, for which he was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1946. He also proved himself to be a translation of Shakespeare, which in his time was very popular.
He died in 1955 on January 31.