Nadezhda Mandelstam
Nadezhda Mandelstam | |
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| Надежда Мандельштам | |
Mandelstam in 1925 | |
| Born | Nadezhda Khazina October 30, 1899 Saratov, Russian Empire |
| Died | December 29, 1980 (aged 81) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Resting place | Kuntsevo Cemetery |
| Spouse | Osip Mandelstam |
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.