Zinovii Grzhebin

Zinovii Isaevich Grzhebin (Russian: Зиновий Исаевич Гржебин; 1877-1929) was a Russian illustrator and publisher.

Zinovii was born in Chuguev, in Ukraine. As the son of a soldier who had served 25 years in the Russian Army, he was less constrained by the anti-semetic measures regulating Russian society at the time. He graduated from Kharkov art school in 1899[1] and went to study art in Munich in the studio of Shimon Holloshi.

Grzhebin was closely associated with Maxim Gorky.[2]

Zuphel

Grzhebin edited a short-lived satirical magazine Zhupel (Bugbear) in 1905-6.[3] Two issues were published in December 1905 and one issue in January 1906. Grzhebin was arrested and imprisoned for a year for "disrespecting the Imperial authority".[1]

Brier

In 1906 Grzhebin set up the Brier publishing house at 31 Nikolaevskaya Street, St Petersburg with Solomon Yuryevich Kopelman. From 1907-11 they published Severnye sborniki (Northern Collections) and Sborniki literatury i iskusstva (Collections of Literature and Art).[1] They also published Alexander Blok's Liricheskie dramy (Lyrical Dramas).[1] In 1918 they moved the publishing house to Moscow, and then shut it down in 1922, when he emigrated to Berlin.[4]


Vsemirnaya Literature

Grzhebin was employed by Vsemirnaya Literature (World Literature), a semi-official literary publishing house established by Maxim Gorky and Anatoly Lunacharsky, Peoples' Commissar for Education on 4 September 1918. Grzhebin loaned paintings by Isaac Levitan, Albert Nikolayevitch Benois, Kustodiev, and Boris Grigoriev which were hung on the walls of the offices.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Zinovii Isaevich Grzhebin, 1877-1929 :: Russian Satirical Journals Collection". digitallibrary.usc.edu. University of Southern California. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  2. ↑ "Grzhebin, Zinovii Isaevich, 1877-1929.". socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  3. ↑ "Grzhebin, Zinovii Isaevich - Oxford Reference". Oxford Reference. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780198606536.001.0001/acref-9780198606536-e-2087. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  4. ↑ Dvinyatina, T. M. "Saint Petersburg Encyclopaedia". www.encspb.ru. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  5. ↑ Fitzpatrick, Sheila (1970). The Commisariat of Enlightenment: Soviet Organization of Education and the Arts under Lunacharsky. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-52438-5.
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