[1] Later that year he fled to Finland, then to Britain, where he studied at the University of Oxford (Balliol College) until 1921.
It was there that he met Vladimir Nabokov, with whom he remained on friendly terms and corresponded until the novelist's death.
[1] In 1932 Struve replaced D. S. Mirsky at the University College London's (UCL) School of Slavonic Studies.
[3] Struve's publications number around 900, including editions of works by Russian authors suppressed in the Soviet Union, such as Anna Akhmatova, Nikolai Gumilev, Marina Tsvetayeva, and Osip Mandelstam.
The writer Nikita Struve was the son of his brother Aleksey and therefore Gleb's nephew.