Alexis Guedroitz
Alexis Guedroitz | |
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 Alexis Guedroitz in 1991. | |
| Born | 9 June 1923 Pančevo, Serbia |
| Died | 1 February 1992 (aged 68) Brussels, Belgium |
| Occupation | Professor of Russian language and literature, interpreter, adapter, writer and lecturer |
| Language | French, Russian |
| Nationality | Belgian |
Prince[1] Alexis Nicolaevich Guedroitz (9 June 1923 - Pancevo, Serbia – 1 February 1992 - Brussels, Belgium) was a Belgian professor of Russian Language and Literature (Ecole de Guerre; Centre Nucléaire de Mol; Higher Institute of Interpreters and Translators Marie Haps; Higher Institute of the City of Brussels) and an Interpreter who participated in several meetings between Soviet and Belgian politicians (Spaak-Khrushchev (1961); Spaak-Kosygin (1969); Harmel-Gromyko (1972); official visit of the King and Queen of the Belgians in USSR (1975); ... )
He was also one of the founders and delegates in Belgium of the International Dostoevsky Society (IDS).
Biography[]
Childhood[]
Born in exile in Pancevo, Serbia, in 1923, Alexis Guedroitz was the son of the Russian Prince Nicholas Wladimirovich[2] Guedroitz and his wife Alexandra Gregorievna Strigewsky. Shortly after his birth, his father, a young officer of the Imperial Guard, died from wounds of war. The young Alexis, his sister Olga and his half-brother Andrey were brought up by their mother remarried in Brussels with Mister George Iovleff.
Private life[]
Alexis Guedroitz married twice. First in Dublin in 1948, he married Oonagh Ryan, with whom he had a daughter, actress Ania Guedroitz, then in Brussels in 1962, he married Jeanne Marie de Hemricourt de Grunne with whom he had two sons, Nicolas and Michel Guedroitz.
Theatrical adaptations[]
- 1962-1963: Boris Godunov by Alexander Pushkin - Rideau de Bruxelles (new adaptation)
- 1963-1964: Ivanov by Anton Chekhov - Rideau de Bruxelles (adaptation)
- 1964-1965: The Spirit underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky - Rideau de Bruxelles (brought to the stage)
- 1966-1967: Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov - Rideau de Bruxelles (new adaptation)
- 1967-1968: The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky - Rideau de Bruxelles (brought to the stage)
- 1969-1970: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky - Rideau de Bruxelles (stage adaptation)
- 1972-1973: A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev - Theatre Royal du Parc (adaptation)
- 1973-1974: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky - Rideau de Bruxelles (adaptation)
- 1976-1977: The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov - Theatre Royal du Parc (adaptation)
- 1979-1980: The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky - Rideau de Bruxelles (adaptation)
- 1979-1980: The Seagull by Anton Chekhov - Theatre Royal des Galleries (new adaptation)
- 1987-1988: Ivanov by Anton Chekhov - Theatre Royal du Parc (adaptation)
- 1988-1989: Hoop by Viktor Slavkin - Rideau de Bruxelles (French text)
Literary adaptations[]
- 1973: A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev (Translator: Alexis Guedroitz - Paris: Jacques Antoine)
- 1975: Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov (Translator : Alexis Guedroitz - Paris)
- 1980: The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Adapter : Alexis Guedroitz - Brussels: Rideau de Bruxelles - Collection: Cahiers du Rideau)
Books as author[]
- 195?: The Triumph of Stephan Pasternacq[3]
- 1959: Terrain vague[4]
- 196?: The Concerto in D
- 1974: The Nobel Prize in Russian literature: from Bunin to Solzhenitsyn[5]
- 1985: Faire: un verbe à tout faire[6]
Periodicals[]
- 1973: Turgenev, The Legacy of Pushkin - Alexis Guedroitz in Revue Générale - excerpt from the March issue
- 1978: Leo Tolstoy or creative introspection - Alexis Guedroitz in Revue Générale - excerpt from No. 10, October
Press Releases[]
Bibliography[]
- The new dictionary of the Belgians (A-H) from 1830 to our days - Delzenne et Houyoux - Le cri dictionnaire - La Libre Belgique RTBF - ISBN 2-87106-212-9
Decorations[]
- Officer of the Order of Academic Palms (France)
- Officer of the Order of Leopold (Belgium)
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Ferrand, Les Familles Princières de l'Ancien Empire de Russie
- ^ Open database of officers of the Imperial Russian Army: Gedroits Nikolay Vladimirovich
- ^ Le triomphe de Stephan Pasternacq
- ^ "Terrain vague". Archived from the original on 2012-03-25. Retrieved 2011-09-07.
- ^ Les Prix Nobel de la littérature russe: de Bounine à Soljenitzyne
- ^ Faire: un verbe à tout faire
External links[]
- 1923 births
- Yugoslav emigrants to Belgium
- 1992 deaths
- Belgian academics