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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 157,233 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Nadezhda Mandelstam is the 1,295th most popular writer (up from 1,356th in 2019), the 469th most popular biography from Russia (down from 431st in 2019) and the 58th most popular Russian Writer.

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  • 2.95

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nadezhda Mandelstam ranks 1,295 out of 5,755Before her are Juan Rulfo, Mavro Orbini, Antoine-Henri Jomini, Robin Hobb, Jan Kochanowski, and Friedrich Maximilian Klinger. After her are Christian Friedrich Hebbel, Francesco Maria Piave, Vittorio Alfieri, Ignazio Silone, Naim Frashëri, and James Baldwin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Nadezhda Mandelstam ranks 65Before her are Burt Munro, Brassaï, Ernst-Robert Grawitz, Andrei Platonov, Aksel Sandemose, and Franz Jonas. After her are Fritz Bayerlein, Hans Jeschonnek, Raoul Salan, Princess Margaretha of Sweden, Hayato Ikeda, and Walter Lantz. Among people deceased in 1980, Nadezhda Mandelstam ranks 61Before her are V. V. Giri, Stanisława Walasiewicz, Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse, Heinz Linge, Winifred Wagner, and Raoul Walsh. After her are Patrick Depailler, Mohammad Hatta, Ernő Gerő, Filipp Golikov, Yigal Allon, and Tex Avery.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nadezhda Mandelstam ranks 469 out of 3,262Before her are Vera Zasulich (1849), Alexander Afanasyev (1826), Iziaslav II of Kiev (1097), Marina Raskova (1912), Valery Bykovsky (1934), and Alexei Navalny (1976). After her are Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia (1859), Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov (1787), Vladimir Bukovsky (1942), Catharina of Württemberg (1783), Alexander Grin (1880), and Viktor Suvorov (1947).

Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Nadezhda Mandelstam ranks 58Before her are Alexander Ostrovsky (1823), Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817), Andrei Platonov (1899), Aleksandr Kuprin (1870), Rasul Gamzatov (1923), and Alexander Afanasyev (1826). After her are Alexander Grin (1880), Viktor Suvorov (1947), Daniil Kharms (1905), Konstantin Simonov (1915), Gavrila Derzhavin (1743), and Mukhtar Auezov (1897).