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SurnameVald
NameGrigory
PatronymBorisovich
Birth year1938
Birth month3
Birth day18
birth_placeKharkiv, Ukraine

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Mandelstam Nadezhda Yakovlevna (1899-1980)

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surnameMandelstam
nameNadezhda
patronymYakovlevna
birth_year1899
birth_month10
birth_day30
birth_placeSaratov
death_year1980
death_month12
death_day29
death_placeMoscow

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.