Mandelstam Nadezhda Yakovlevna (1899-1980)
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| Surname | Mandelstam |
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| Name | Nadezhda |
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| Patronym | Yakovlevna |
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| Birth year | 1899 |
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| Birth month | 10 |
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| Birth day | 30 |
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| Birth place | Saratov |
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| Death year | 1980 |
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| Death month | 12 |
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| Death day | 29 |
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| Death place | Moscow |
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| Sex | F |
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Mandelstam (née Khazina) Nadezhda Yakovlevna (30.10.1899, Saratov — 29.12.1980, Moscow) — teacher, writer. Parents were a lawyer and a physician. Was baptised as a child. Husband — O. Mandelstam. After her husband's death, taught English; in 1956, defended a candidate's dissertation in English philology (supervisor V. Zhirmunsky). Under the pseudonym N. Yakovleva, published a number of essays in the collection “Tarusa Pages” (Kaluga, 1961). Dedicated artistic memoirs to the fate and work of O. Mandelstam. In 1979, donated free of charge to Princeton University (USA) the archive of O. Mandelstam that she had kept.
Works: Memoirs. New York, 1970; 1985; Hope Abandoned. Paris, 1972; 1983; Book Three. Paris, 1987.