Nadezhda Mandelstam
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Russian writer and educator
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Nadezhda Mandelstam, born Nadezhda Yakovlevna Khazina in Saratov in 1899, was a Russian writer, autobiographer, biographer, and poet. She was a citizen of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and Russia. Her professional life included employment at the National University of Uzbekistan named after Mirzo Ulugbek, and her field of work involved the English language. She was married to Osip Mandelstam and was of the Jewish ethnic group.
Mandelstam wrote in Russian and was nominated for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Her notable works include *Moe zaveshchanie*, *Hope Against Hope*, *Moe zaveshchanie i drugie ėsse*, and *Vtorai︠a︡ kniga*. She died in Moscow on December 29, 1980, and is buried at Kuntsevo Cemetery.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1899
- Died
- 1980
- Works
- 26
Top works
- Moe zaveshchanie
- Hope Against Hope
- Moe zaveshchanie i drugie ėsse
- Vtorai︠a︡ kniga
- Vtorai︠a︡ kniga
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Key facts
- Born
- Nadezhda Khazina , ( 1899-10-30 ) October 30, 1899, Saratov , Russian Empire
- Died
- December 29, 1980 (1980-12-29) (aged 81), Moscow , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union
- Resting place
- Kuntsevo Cemetery
- Spouse
- Osip Mandelstam
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Nadezhda
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of birth
- Saratov
- Place of death
- Moscow
- Spouse
- Osip Mandelstam
- Occupation
- lecturer
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Image
- Наде́жда Я́ковлевна Мандельшта́м.jpg
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- place of burial
- Kuntsevo Cemetery
- date of birth
- 1899-10-30
- date of death
- 1980-12-29
- birth name
- Надежда Яковлевна Хазина
- Commons category
- Nadezhda Mandelstam
- nominated for
- Neustadt International Prize for Literature
- writing language
- Russian
- ethnic group
- Jewish people
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Encyclopedic overview
Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam (Russian: Надежда Яковлевна Мандельштам, IPA: [nɐˈdʲeʐdə ˈjakəvlʲɪvnə mənʲdʲɪlʲˈʂtam]; née Khazina [Хазина]; 30 October [O.S. 18 October] 1899 – 29 December 1980) was a Soviet writer, translator, educator, linguist, and memoirist.
She is the author of two memoirs about her life with her husband Osip Mandelstam and the repressive Stalinist regime they faced: Hope Against Hope (1970) and Hope Abandoned (1974), both first published in the West in English, translated by Max Hayward.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nadezhda Mandelstam” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.