Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova

female, deceased (1966)
poet, Russianwomenwriter, st petersburg, Russian, Russian Orthodox Christian, Victim of Soviet repressions…Russian poetry, Russian literature
Anna Akhmatova (— March 5, 1966) was the pen name of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, the leader and the heart and soul of the St Petersburg tradition of Ru...
Marina Tsvetaeva

Marina Tsvetaeva

female, deceased (1941)
Russianwomenwriter, Diarist, From Moscow, writer, tatarstan, committed suicide…Russian
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (Marina Ivanovna Cvetaeva) (26 September/8 October 1892, Moscow - 31 August 1941, Yelabuga, Tatarstan, suicide) was a...
Nadezhda Joffe

Nadezhda Joffe

female, deceased (1999)
Soviet women writer, Russianwomenwriter, Russian, American women writer, Great Purge, collapse of the soviet union…Russian-American Jew
Nadezhda Adolfovna Joffe (1906- March 18 1999, Brooklyn) was a Soviet Trotskyist and daughter of early Soviet leader Adolph Joffe. Joffe joined the...

Maria Rybakova

female, 36 years old
Women novelist, Women short story writer, Russianwomenwriter, writer, Northeast China, California State University, Long Beach…Short story writer, Russian
Maria Rybakova is a Russian writer. She is a granddaughter of Russian writer Anatoly Rybakov and a daughter of literary critic Natalia Ivanova....
Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya

Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya

female, deceased (1939)
Russianwomenwriter, Old Bolshevik, Okhranka, From Saint Petersburg, October Revolution, Old Bolsheviks…Spouses of Russian and Soviet national leader
Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya (February 27, 1939) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary. She married Bolshevik founder Vladimir Lenin in 1898...
Olga Berggolts

Olga Berggolts

female, deceased (1975)
Soviet women writer, Russianwomenwriter, From Saint Petersburg, blockade, soviet, siege of leningrad…Russian
Olga Fyodorovna Berggolts (also Berggoltz or Bergholz was a Soviet poet. She is most famous for her work on the Leningrad radio during the city's...
Zalpa Bersanova

Zalpa Bersanova

female
chechen, chechen war, Russian, Ethnographer, children's writer, Short story writer…Russianwomenwriter
Zalpa Khozh-Akhmedovna Bersanova is a Chechen ethnographer and author who has written extensively on the Chechen people and the Chechen wars. Zalpa...
Yulia Drunina

Yulia Drunina

female, deceased (1991)
Soviet women writer, Russianwomenwriter, committed suicide, Russian, perestroika, Soviet poet…Russian literature
Yulia Drunina ((May 10 1924 - November 21 1991) was a Russian poet. Her works were characterised with classical clarity, she often used real life...

Lou Andreas-Salomé

female, deceased (1937)
Russianwomenwriter, nietzsche, freud, wagner, Jewish person, rilke…Russian, writer
Lou Andreas-Salomé (née Louise von Salomé was a Russian-born psychoanalyst and author. Her diverse intellectual interests led to friendships wit...
Lyudmila Ulitskaya

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

female, 66 years old
Russianwomenwriter, Women short story writer, Women novelist, public, Short story writer, Critic…Russian, Russian Booker, writer
Ludmila Ulitskaya is a critically acclaimed modern Russian novelist and short-story writer. She was born in the town of Davlekanovo in Bashkiria in...