WRITER

Nadezhda Mandelstam

1899 - 1980

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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 Russian Jewish writer and educator, and the wife of the poet Osip Mandelstam who died in 1938 in a transit camp to the gulag of Siberia. She wrote two memoirs about their lives together and the repressive Stalinist regime: Hope Against Hope (1970) and Hope Abandoned (1974), both first published in the West in English, translated by Max Hayward. Of these books the critic Clive James wrote, "Hope Against Hope puts her at the centre of the liberal resistance under the Soviet Union. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nadezhda Mandelstam has received more than 170,104 page views. Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Nadezhda Mandelstam is the 1,344th most popular writer (down from 1,292nd in 2019), the 482nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 468th in 2019) and the 59th most popular Russian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 170k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Vtorai︠a︡ kniga
Biography, Dissenters, Intellectual life
1972
Poems
Translations into English, Translations into German
1973
Mozart & Salieri
Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830), Composers & musicians, Mandelshtam, Osip,
1994
Hope abandoned
1974
Contre tout espoir
1972
Hope Against Hope
1970

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nadezhda Mandelstam ranks 1,344 out of 7,302. Before her are Ida Laura Pfeiffer, Sergey Mikhalkov, Chernorizets Hrabar, Maria Shriver, Kurt Tucholsky, and Henri Murger. After her are Adalberon, Edith Södergran, Georgi Markov, Abu Tammam, Ignazio Silone, and Quintus Fabius Pictor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Nadezhda Mandelstam ranks 61. Before her are Lev Kuleshov, Andrei Platonov, Alma Reville, Fritz Bayerlein, Brassaï, and Ludwig Guttmann. After her are Philipp Bouhler, Georges Bidault, Louis Chiron, Burt Munro, Princess Margaretha of Sweden, and Aksel Sandemose. Among people deceased in 1980, Nadezhda Mandelstam ranks 65. Before her are Stanisława Walasiewicz, Tôn Đức Thắng, Ian Curtis, Heinz Linge, Ludwig Guttmann, and Filipp Golikov. After her are Fabian von Schlabrendorff, Seretse Khama, Winifred Wagner, Hugh Griffith, Tex Avery, and Ernő Gerő.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nadezhda Mandelstam ranks 482 out of 3,761. Before her are Mikhail Chigorin (1850), Yuri Lotman (1922), Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov (1890), Vasily Surikov (1848), Sergey Mikhalkov (1913), and Filipp Golikov (1900). After her are Edith Södergran (1892), Vladimir Bekhterev (1857), Prince Albert of Prussia (1809), Olga Knipper (1868), Valentin Pavlov (1937), and Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay (1846).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Nadezhda Mandelstam ranks 59. Before her are Elsa Triolet (1896), Alexander Afanasyev (1826), Alexander Radishchev (1749), Rasul Gamzatov (1923), Lyudmila Ulitskaya (1943), and Sergey Mikhalkov (1913). After her are Edith Södergran (1892), Viktor Suvorov (1947), Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826), Aleksandr Kuprin (1870), Korney Chukovsky (1882), and Gavrila Derzhavin (1743).

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