Dmitry Svyatopolk-Mirsky

1890 - 1939

country of citizenship: Russian Empire, Soviet Union

languages spoken, written or signed: Russian, English

educated at: Faculty of Oriental Studies of the St. Petersburg University

occupation: linguist, poet, journalist, writer, literary historian, university teacher, literary critic, translator

D. S. Mirsky is the English pen-name of Dmitry Petrovich Svyatopolk-Mirsky (Russian: Дми́трий Петро́вич Святопо́лк-Ми́рский), often known as Prince Mirsky (9 September [O.S. 22 August] 1890 – c. 7 June 1939), a Russian political and literary historian who promoted the knowledge and translations of Russian literature in Britain and of English literature in the Soviet Union. He was born in Kharkov Governorate and died in a Soviet gulag near Magadan. Source: Wikipedia (en)