Samuel Koteliansky (1880-1955) fled the pogroms of Russia in 1911 and established himself as a friend of many of Britain's literati and intellectuals, who were fascinated by his homeland's more civilized side: the Ballets Russes, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov. Kot, as he was known, became an indispensable guide to Russian culture for England's leading writers, artists, and intellectuals, who in turn helped introduce English audiences to Russian works. A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury looks at the remarkable influence that an outsider had on the tightly knit circle of Britain's cultural elite. Among Koteliansky's friends were Katherine Mansfield, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Mark Gertler, Lady Ottoline Morrell, H.G. Wells, and Dilys Powell. But it was his close and turbulent friendship with D.H. Lawrence that proved to be Koteliansky's lasting legacy. In a lively and vibrant narrative, Galya Diment shows how, despite Kot's determination, he could never escape the dark aspects of his past or overcome the streak of anti-Semitism that ran through British society, including the hearts and minds of many of his famous literary friends.
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- Illustrations following pages 24
- Introduction: Right Place, Right Time 16
- PART 1 FROM SHMILIK TO KOT: 1880–1930 38
- 1 Shmilik 40
- 2 “Kot”: The Jew in London 54
- 3 Year 1915: Kot as Kangaroo 75
- 4 Revolutions and Catastrophes 100
- 5 H.G. Wells in Russia and the Death of Mansfield 118
- 6 Translating for the Hogarth Press 135
- 7 The Adelphi Affair and the Café Royal 155
- 8 Rozanov and Lady Chatterley’s Lover: The End of an Era 178
- PART 2 AFTER LAWRENCE: 1931–1955 218
- 9 Mournings: Old Enemies and New Friends 220
- 10 Cresset Press: Losing Equilibrium 241
- 11 May Sarton, Ottoline’s Death, and Gertler’s Suicide 260
- 12 World War II and Its Aftermath 277
- 13 Full Circle 297
- Post Mortem 316
- APPENDICES 320
- A: S.S. Koteliansky, 1880–1955: A Chronology 320
- B: Who’sWho in Koteliansky’s Life in England 326
- C: Lady Glenavy: More Memories of Kot 334
- D: Koteliansky and Stephen Spender 341
- E: Two Letters from Frieda Lawrence to Koteliansky 344
- Abbreviations 346
- Notes 348
- Bibliography 424
- Index 442
- A 442
- B 442
- C 443
- D 443
- E 444
- F 444
- G 444
- H 445
- I 445
- J 445
- K 445
- L 446
- M 447
- N 448
- O 448
- P 448
- R 449
- S 449
- T 450
- U 450
- V 451
- W 451
- Y 451
- Z 451
