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NameBeola
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Birth year1940
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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
SexF

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.