Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam (née Khazina) (Russian: Наде́жда Я́ковлевна Мандельшта́м, 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.
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31 October 1899
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Died |
29 December 1980 (aged 81)
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Zodiac | Scorpio |
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