Grigory Gukovsky

{{Short description|Literary critic}}

Grigory Alexandrovich Gukovsky ({{lang-rus|Григо́рий Алекса́ндрович Гуко́вский|p=ɡʊˈkofskʲɪj}}; 1 May 1902, in Saint Petersburg – 2 April 1950, in Moscow) was a Russian Formalist literary historian and scholar whose work at the Pushkin House led to the rediscovery of 18th-century Russian literature.

He graduated from the Petrograd University in 1923 and held the chair in Russian literature there. Gukovsky was considered the foremost authority on 18th-century Russian literature. After spending a winter in besieged Leningrad he read lectures in Saratov University until 1948. Upon his return to Leningrad Gukovsky was arrested as a "rootless cosmopolitan". He died of a heart attack in Lefortovo Prison.{{Cite web|url=https://eleven.co.il/article/11329|title = Гуковский Григорий}}

Gukovsky's wife Natalia Rykova (1898–1928) was Anna Akhmatova's close friend.{{Cite web|url=http://www.herzenlib.ru/almanac/number/detail.php?NUMBER=number5&ELEMENT=gerzenka5_2_7|title = Герценка: Вятские записки - Вятские друзья Анны Ахматовой}} She died in childbirth. Their daughter Natalia Dolinina (1928–1979) wrote a number of books for children. Gukovsky's disciples include Juri Lotman.{{Cite web|url=http://magazines.russ.ru/nlo/2002/55/lotm.html|title = Он был нашим профессором — Журнальный зал}}