18609298Aleksandr Shteinberg papers18609298Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2024-09-19 18:16:19 -0400.Description is written in: English, Latin script. Rare Book and Manuscript Library Aleksandr Shteinberg papers Shteinberg, Alexander S. 18609298 BA#1122 English , Russian . 3 Linear Feet 6 manuscript boxes 1956-2005 Content Description

Correspondence, books with inscriptions, and research notes of Aleksandr Shteinberg. He was a Russian immigrant from Leningrad/St. Petersburg who befriended many Russian dissident poets such as Joseph Brodsky, Lev Losev, Aleksand Kushner, among others.

The majority of this collection consists of books with inscription of significant scholarly values. Some of those inscriptions may light shed on the creative methods of Russian dissident poets.

Biographical / Historical

Alexander Shteinberg (May 4, 1937, Leningrad) - October 29, 2020, Moscow) was a physicist specializing in combustion and explosion. He authored several books and numerous articles covering a wide range of topics in the field, including his exclusive research on the mechanisms of natural geyser eruptions. His parents were Semen Shteinberg, an architect, and Anna Velikina. Alexander's brother, Genrich Shteinberg, was a renowned volcanologist.

Alexander came of age in post-war Leningrad among young men and women who would become celebrated Russian-language poets after the late 1980s: Evgeny Rein, Alexander Kushner, and Joseph Brodsky. In the 1950s, as a student, Alexander joined the association of young poets under the supervision of the poet Gleb Semenov. The members included Kushner, Gorbovsky, Sosnora, Britanishsky, Yakov Gordin, Nina Koroleva, Mikhail Yasnov, Rimma Markova, and Elena Kumpan, who became Semenov's wife and editor. Although Alexander never wrote poetry, he championed the work and publication efforts of the association's members. He married Nina Koroleva and remained an ardent supporter of her work even after their divorce in 2001. Their son, Eugene Korolev, lives in Moscow.

In 1993, Alexander moved to California and settled in Berkeley with his second wife, Alla Efimova, an art historian. Their son, Samuel Shteinberg, lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Intellectuals -- Russia Russian Americans Russian poetry -- 20th century Brodsky, Joseph, 1940-1996 Losev, Lev, 1937-2009 Kushner, Alexander, 1936- Reĭn, Evgeniĭ Series I: Correspondence, personal documents, photographsAgeev, Leonid to Alexander Shteinberg1959 Sep 141Artamonov, Sergei to Alexander Shteinberg1958 Dec 61Berlin, Viktor, to Shteinberg, Alexander1956 Aug 71Britaninskii, V. to Shteinberg, Alexander1956 Aug 21- Dec 121Gorbovskii, Gleb to Alexander Shteinberg1958 Jun 15-1960 Jul 201Koroleva, Nina to Alexander Shteinberg196319991Kushner, Alexander to Alexander Shteinberg2005 Sep 161Kutyrev, Eduard19551Mochalov, A. to Alexander Shteinberg19591Shteinberg, Alexander to Lev Losev1998 Jun 221Shteinberg, A. to Nina Koroleva1Shteinberg, Alexander to Studenkin, Viktor1960 Dec 261Tarakanov, A. to Shteinberg, Alexander1959 Jul 221Unidentified to Shteinberg, Alexander1955 Oct 51Drawings by E. Nogi1Alexander Shteinberg personal documents19541Photographs1Series II: Printed materialsSubseries II.1: Typescripts"O rifme" by David Samoilov1Scope and Contents

reprint

Poems by A. Galich and O. Goldbaum1Scope and Contents

copy of typescript

Poems and photographs by Gleb Gorbovskii1Scope and Contents

copy of typescript

Poems by Alexander Kushner abd Anatolii Naiman1Scope and Contents

copy of typescript

Poems by Bulat Okudzhava1Scope and Contents

copy of typescript

Samizdat book1Scope and Contents

one of 50 destroyed by KGB in 1956

Subseries II.2: Books with inscriptionsAgeev, Leonid – Pora priobretenii2Ageev, Leonid – Zemlia2Ageev, Leonid – Litsa vstrechnykh2Astafjewa, Natalia, Britaniszski, Wladimir – Dvuglas2Berlin, Biktor – Mezhdu delom2Berlin, Biktor – Ne o tom2Berlin, Viktor – Posledniaia tetrad'2Beshenskovskaia, Ol'ga – Peterburgskii al'bom2Bitov, Andrei – Aptekarskii ostrov2Bitov, Andrei – Derevo 1971-19972Bitov, Andrei – Nachatki astrologii russkoj literatury2Bitov, Andrei – Pervaia kniga avtora2Bitov, Andrei – Novyi Gulliver2Bitov, Andrei – Piatoe izmerenie2Bobyshev, Dmitrii – Angely I sily2Bobyshev, Dmitrii – Polnota vsego2Britanishskii, Vladimir – Vykhod v prostranstvo2Briukhovetskii, Viktor - Avtograf2Brodskii, Iosif – Rozhdestvenskie stikhi2Brodskii, Iosif – Chast' rechi2Efimov, Igor – Nobelevskii tuneiadets2Efimov, Igor – Svetliaki2Ezrokhi, Zoia – Oslinye ushi tsaria Midasa2Ezrokhi, Zoia – Na vsiakii sluchai2Ginsburg, Lydiia – O starom I novom3Golovanov, Alexander – Vzgliad s neboskreba3Gorbovskii, Gleb – Chudesa pod nogami3Gorbovskii, Gleb –Okaiannaia golovushka3Gorbovskii, Gleb - Tishina3Gordin, Iakov – Geroi porazheniia3Gordin, Iakov – Okhota na oborotnia3Gordin, Iakov – Pamiati ptitsy3Gorodnitskii, Alexander – Atlanty derzhat nebo3Gorodnitskii, Alexander – I zhit' eshche nadezhde…3Gorodnitskii, Alexander – Novaia Gollandiia3Gorodnitskii, Alexander – Ostrov Izrail'3Gorodnitsii, Alexander – Stikhi I pesni dvadtsat' pervogo veka3Gritsenko, Oleg – Shmelinyi miod3Guberman, Igor' – Vtoroi Ierusalimskii dnevnik3Gurevich, German – Mne by shpagu I shliapu s perom3Ioffe, Elena – Kogda mne ispolnitsia vecher3Iurskii, Sergei – Kto derzhit pauzu3Korolev, V.L. – Lirika4Koroleva, Nina – Vremia razbrasyvat' kamni4Koroleva, Nina – Vstrechi v puti4Koroleva, Nina – Dogovorim kogda-nibud' potom4Koroleva, Nina – Izbrannye stikhi4Koroleva, Nina – Podarok4Korolenko, Psoj – Shliager veka4Korzhavin, Naum – Vremia dano4Kushner, Alexander – Apollon v snegu4Kushner, Alexander – Apollon v trave4Kushner, Alexander – Izbrannoe4Kushner, Alexander – Kustarnik4Kushner, Alexander – Letuchaia griada4Kushner, Alexander – Na sumrachnoi zvezde4Kushner, Alexander – Nochnaia muzyka4Kushner, Alexander – Oblaka vybiraiut anapest5Kushner, Alexander – Pervoe vpechatlenie5Kushner, Alexander – Pis'mo5Kushner, Alexander – Podarok5Kushner, Alexander – Po etu storonu tainstvennoi cherty5Kushner, Alexander – Poka nas pomniat5Kushner, Alexander – Primety5Kushner, Alexander – Tavricheskii sad5Kushner, Alexander – Tavricheskii sad, izbrannoe5Kushner, Alexander – Tysiachelistnik5Kushner, Alexander – Volna I kamen'5Kushner, Alexander – Vremena ne vybiraiut5Kushner, Alexander – Zemnoe pritiazhenie5Losev, Lev – Sisyphus Redux5Losev, Lev – Tainyj sovetnik5Neshumova, Tatiana – Glukhoi ushastyi5Pekurovskaia, Asia – Sergei Dovlatov glazami pervoi zheny5Pod Voronikhinskimi svodami – Stikhi I vospominaniia5Poiski smyslov – collective works5Rein, Evgenii – Balkon6Rein, Evgenii - Izbrannoe6Rein, Evgenii - Nezhnostno6Rein, Evgenii – Protiv chasovoj strelki6Romankov, Leonid – Kontury sveta6Shekhtman, Veniamin – nBeduiny bol'shikh gorodov6Shtern, Liudmila – Dovlatov, dobryi moi priiatel'6Sokhrin, Boris – Otradnoe6Tarutin, Oleg – Sinii kit6Temkina, Marina – Kalancha6Ushakova, Elena – Metel'6Vin'kovetskaia, Diana – Vash o. Alexander6Vin'kovetskaia, Diana – Amerika, Rossia, I ia6Zernova, Ruf' – Eto bylo pri nas6