Vladimir L'vovich Korvin-Piotrovskii, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetVladimir L'vovich Korvin-Piotrovskii
Russian writer
Date of Birth: 15-May-1891
Place of Birth: Kiev, Ukraine
Date of Death: 02-Apr-1966
Profession: poet
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Vladimir L'vovich Korvin-Piotrovskii
- Vladimir L'vovich Korvin-Piotrovskii (Russian: ???????? ??????? ??????-???????????) was born May 15, 1891, in Kiev and died April 2, 1966.
- His place of birth is sometimes identified as the Ukrainian town of Bila Tserkva, where Korvin-Piotrovskii spent much of his childhood.
- During World War I, Korvin-Piotrovskii served in the White Army as an artillery officer.
- After being taken prisoner and barely escaping execution, he crossed through Poland and made his way to Berlin around 1920. In Berlin, Korvin-Piotrovskii became active in the Russian emigre literary community.
- There he met IUrii Ofrosimov and Vladimir Sirin (Nabokov).
- He also became involved with the Berlin Poets' Club, a group of Russian emigre poets founded by Mikhail Gorlin.
- In addition to Ofrosimov, Korvin-Piotrovskii and Sirin, members included Raisa Blokh, Nina Korvin-Piotrovskaia (née Kaplun), Vera Nabokov, and Sofiia Pregel'. Vladimir and Nina Korvin-Piotrovskii left Germany before World War II began.
- Nina Korvin-Piotrovskaia worked at the French embassy in Berlin, and they were able to travel to Paris with embassy staff.
- During World War II, Korvin-Piotrovskii was active in the French Resistance movement.
- He was arrested and imprisoned for approximately eight months in 1944.
- His fellow prisoners included the French writer André Frossard, whose memoir La maison des otages documents this time period. Vladimir and Nina Korvin-Piotrovskii were close friends with Italo and Leila Griselli and visited them many times in Italy.
- Italo Griselli, a sculptor, made busts of both Vladimir and Nina Korvin-Piotrovskii. In 1961 the family moved to Los Angeles, California, where Vladimir Korvin-Piotrovskii died on April 2, 1966 and Nina Korvin-Piotrovskaia died in 1975.
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