Liubov Gurevich

{{Short description|Russian editor and author (1866–1940)}}

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Liubov Yakovlevna Gurevich ({{langx|ru|Любо́вь Я́ковлевна Гуре́вич}}; November 1, 1866, Saint Petersburg – October 17, 1940, Moscow) was a Russian editor, translator, author, and critic.Carnicke (1998, 73) and Rabinowitz (1998, 236). She has been described as "Russia's most important woman literary journalist."Rabinowitz (1998, 236). From 1894 to 1917 she was the publisher and chief editor of the monthly journal The Northern Herald (Severny Vestnik), a leading Russian symbolist publication based in Saint Petersburg.Carnicke (1998, 75), Pyman (1994, 19), Rabinowitz (1998, 236), and Slonim (1962, 86). The journal acted as a rallying-point for the Symbolists Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Zinaida Gippius, Fyodor Sologub, Nikolai Minsky, and Akim Volynsky.Slonim (1962, 86).

Gurevitch was of mixed social background. Her mother hailed from Russian nobility but her father was a Jewish convert to Russian Orthodoxy.[https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9780822380627-011/html?lang=en Ruthchild, R. "Writing for Their Rights: Four Feminist Journalists: Mariia Chekhova, Liubov’ Gurevich, Mariia Pokrovskaia, and Ariadna Tyrkova" in An Improper Profession. De Gruyter.]

In 1905, Gurevitch joined the Moscow Art Theatre (MAT) as a literary advisor.Benedetti (1999, 154) and Carnicke (1998, 75). She worked as an advisor and editor for the seminal Russian theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski for the next 30 years and influenced his writing more than anyone else.Benedetti (1999, 154) and Carnicke (1998, 74). Gurevich and Stanislavski had been writing to one another since the MAT's first tour to St Petersburg and became close friends.Benedetti (1999, 154) and Magarshack (1950, 4).