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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.
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Aleksandr Shteinberg papers; Box and Folder; Bakhmeteff Archive; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Gift of Alla Efimova, 2024
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processed by Tanya Chebotarev, 2024
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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