Valerian Adolfovich Chudovsky (April 2 ( 14 ), 1882 , St. Petersburg - November 4, 1937 ) - librarian, literary critic, theorist of versification.
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Biography
Born into a noble family. He graduated from the Alexander Lyceum in 1904 and began serving in the land management department of the Ministry of the Interior . In 1907-1909 he continued his education abroad. Upon returning to Russia on May 13, 1910, he was enlisted in the Ministry of Education and was sent to the legal department of the Imperial Public Library . A year later, on June 30, 1911, he was transferred to the library as a junior assistant librarian; from December 4, 1913, he became head of the legal department, and from January 9, 1914, he additionally became the registrar of the library.
Since September 1915, with the rank of college adviser, Chudovsky was a jury member of the 1st branch of the Petrograd District Court. Since March 1, 1916 he became the head of the department of fine arts and technology of the library. In 1918, on June 19, he was appointed head of the department of the Rossika library, and from October 18, 1919 - the department of fine literature.
Chief Librarian of the State Public Library .
Arrested on April 7, 1925 in the “ Case of Lyceum Students ” and sent to Nizhny Tagil for five years. Here he became the head of the unique library of the Tagil District Museum of Local History , composed of more than 38 thousand books of the former owners of the Demidovs (the so-called "San Donat"). Having left the link, he returned to Leningrad. In 1934 he taught at the Institute of Mechanization and Socialist Agriculture.
In 1935, together with his wife, Inna Romanovna, nee Malkina, he was expelled to Ufa , where he worked as a teacher in the Bashkir branch of the Sverdlovsk Institute for Advanced Studies. He was again arrested on August 25, 1937 and sentenced to capital punishment under articles 58-10, 58-11 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR for participating in the mythical Polish Organization of the Army. He was shot among 98 people on November 4, 1937. Rehabilitated on January 14, 1958.
Literary activity
In 1910-1917, Chudovsky was a permanent employee of the Apollo magazine - its secretary and author; placed in it his articles devoted to symbolist poets and acmeists, the theater, as well as works on the theory of versification and Russian literature of the early XX century. In 1914, his work “The Imperial Public Library for a Hundred Years: 1814-1914” was published.
Chess Activities
Chudovsky was a chess lover and made a significant contribution to the organization of chess competitions and chess associations. In 1909, he was a member of the organizing committee of the tournament in memory of M. I. Chigorin and held in parallel with him the All-Russian tournament of amateurs [1] . In 1914, he was elected secretary of the newly organized All-Russian Chess Union [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Verkhovsky L.S. Karl Schlechter. - M .: FiS, 1984. - S. 40.
- ↑ Chess: Encyclopedic Dictionary / Ch. ed. A.E. Karpov . - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1990. - S. 70. - ISBN 5-85270-005-3 .