Grigoriy Kirdetsov

Who is Grigoriy Kirdetsov?

Kirdetsov Gregoriy L'vovich Dvorzhetskiy ; French: Kirdetzoff Grégoire Lvovitch Dvorzetsky; known in Italy as Kyrdetzow Grigorij L'vovič Dworetzky 1880 - 1938 was a public worker, journalist, the translator of Italian social and political literature. He collaborated in the “Jewish Encyclopedia” (Russian: Еврейской энциклопедии) until 1917. During the First World War he was a correspondent for the newspaper “stock exchange lists” in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Fall 1917, he evacuated his nephew, the Count Constantin Pavlovich Borodin (Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia October 20 1907- Brussels, Belgium, March 28 2007) from Saint Petersburg. In the spring of 1918, he left the Soviet territory. July 1918, in the occupied Revel - nowadays known as Estonia's capital: Tallinn-; he occupied the position of the editor of the semi-official publication of North-Western Government - the newspaper “free Russia” (Свободная Россия), in 1919-1920 together with Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin he was the editor of the newspaper “freedom of Russia”(Свобода России), and in 1920-1921 - the newspaper “for the freedom of Russia”(За свободу России).

In 1919-1920 he simultaneously occupied a key role in the press, relating political divisions in press conferences held by the commander-in-chief of the North-Western White Army, the General Nikolai Nikolaevich Yudenich. In 1921 he emigrated, he joined the smenovekhovskomu (сменовеховскому) social and political flow. From the 26th of March 1922 through the of 1 October 1923 in Berlin, he edited the main printed organ of the smenovekhovskoy (сменовеховской) group - the daily newspaper “Yesterday” (Накануне). As of the 1st of October 1923, he was heading the press corps of the USSR embassy in Germany, he later obtained the post of the press-attaché of the Soviet embassy in Italy.