Vladimir Trubetskol Author

Vladimir Trubetskol was the son of Prince Sergel Nikolaevich Trubetskol, an important philosopher and historian of ancient philosophy. After a brief time studying physics and mathematics at Moscow University, Trubetskol became a cadet in the navy, serving with the escort of the Tsar's private yacht, then entered the Blue Cuirassiers Life Guards cavairy regiment in 1911. He served with distinction in World War I, receiving the St. George's Cross. After the October Revolution, Trubetskoi, dispossessed, but with a wife and children, attempted to support his family by writing and performing music. He was arrested and exiled with his eldest daughter in 1934, then arrested again in 1937-and, as the family was finally informed only in 1991, summarily executed. Susanne Fusso is a professor of Russian at Wesleyan University. She is the author of Designing Dead Souls: An Anatomy of Disorder in Gogol (Stanford, 1993) and also the co-editor of Essays on Karolina Paviova (2001) and Essays on Gogol (1994) both published by Northwestern University Press.