Nina Yakovlevna Dyakonova (also spelled Diakonova; russian: Нина Яковлевна Дьяконова; born Magaziner; October 20, 1915,

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- December 9, 2013,

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) was a Russian researcher of 19th century

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and

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, full professor, Doctor of Philology, member of the Board of Directors of the International Byron Society, and member of the editorial board of the Russian academic book series ''Literaturniye pamyatniki'' ('). She was an authority in the history of

English literature English literature is literature written in the English language from United Kingdom, its crown dependencies, the Republic of Ireland, the United States, and the countries of the former British Empire. ''The Encyclopaedia Britannica'' defines E ...

(with a special interest in English Romantic poetry (Keats, Byron, Shelley)) and links between European literatures with each other and with Russian literature, especially of the 19th century, following her professor .

Biography

Born in the family of the famous Soviet lawyer Professor (1882-1961) and his wife Lydia Mikhailovna. In 1937 she graduated from the

Leningrad State University Saint Petersburg State University (SPBU; russian: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет) is a public research university in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Founded in 1724 by a decree of Peter the G ...

, finishing the courses of two sections - linguistic and literary, and was a disciple of Professors and Viktor M. Zhirmunsky. In 1936 she married the Orientalist scholar Igor M. Dyakonov. In 1943, in the World War II evacuation from besieged Leningrad to a small town of

Kyshtym Kyshtym (russian: Кышты́м) is a town in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located on the eastern slopes of the Southern Ural Mountains northwest of Chelyabinsk, near the town of Ozyorsk. Population: 36,000 (1970). History Kyshtym was establ ...

, she defended her Candidate of Sciences thesis «Китс и поэты Возрождения» ("

Keats John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tuberculos ...

and Renaissance Poets"). Since 1944 she was an assistant professor, then a full professor at the History of Foreign Literatures Department at the Faculty/School of Philology of Leningrad State University. In 1966 she defended her doctoral dissertation "Лондонские романтики и проблемы английского романтизма» ("London Romantics and the Problems of English Romanticism"), dedicated to the works of Hazlitt, Ch.

Lamb Lamb or The Lamb may refer to: * A young sheep * Lamb and mutton, the meat of sheep Arts and media Film, television, and theatre * ''The Lamb'' (1915 film), a silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks Sr. in his screen debut * ''The Lamb'' (1918 ...

, Lee Hunt and other "Londoners." Long-term friendship associated N. Ya. Dyakonova with Ye. G. Etkind and F. A. Vigdorova. Since 1985 she taught at the Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute named after Alexander Herzen (now Alexander Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University).

Family

Husband

Igor Mikhailovich Dyakonov, Russian historian of the Orient and linguist.

Sons

Mikhail Dyakonov Mikhail (Michel) Dyakonov (born 1940 in Leningrad) is a Russian professor of physics at Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C), Université Montpellier - CNRS in France. Career His name is connected with several physical phenomena: Dyakonov–Perel ...

(born 1940) - Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Chief Researcher\Honorary Fellow of the St. Petersburg Abram Ioffe Physicotechnical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and after that, since 1998 professor at the

University of Montpellier The University of Montpellier (french: Université de Montpellier) is a public university, public research university located in Montpellier, in south-east of France. Established in 1220, the University of Montpellier is one of the oldest univ ...

, laureate of the

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; * (1949-2012) - Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Deputy Head of the Sector of Theoretical Physics of High Energies
Professor B. P. Konstantinov St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute
of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Husband's brother's family

*Igor's brother Mikhail Mikhailovich Dyakonoff was an authority in

Iranian studies Iranian studies ( fa, ايران‌شناسی '), also referred to as Iranology and Iranistics, is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the research and study of the civilization, history, literature, art and culture of Iranian peoples. It ...

. *Mikhail Dyakonoff's daughter Elena Dyakonova is a translator from Old and Modern

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Work

Literary scholar

The author of significant works on the writing of

Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...

, Shelley,

Byron George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English romantic poet and Peerage of the United Kingdom, peer. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, and h ...

Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian er ...

, Stevenson, Shaw, Huxley.

Teacher

Dyakonova already joined the teaching profession as an undergraduate student: in 1934 she began to teach English to undergraduates of Oriental studies. Since then, her teaching career never interrupted for a year. Among the students of Dyakonova were dozens of candidates and doctors of science, experienced university teachers and translators of fiction (Galina S. Usova, Galina V. Yakovleva, V.E. Vetlovskaya, I.B. Komarova, Alexandr A. Chameyev, Sergey L. Sukharev, and others). The last decades of her teaching activity were spent as a full professor at the Department of Foreign Literature of the Philological Faculty of Alexander Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University,

Editor

N. Ya. Dyakonova edited translations of

, Lamb, Keats, Fielding,

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De Quincey Thomas Penson De Quincey (; 15 August 17858 December 1859) was an English writer, essayist, and literary critic, best known for his ''Confessions of an English Opium-Eater'' (1821). Many scholars suggest that in publishing this work De Quince ...

, Hazlitt, and compiled several editions of English classical literature (

Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)''The Times'', (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12. was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British Raj, British India, which inspired much o ...

, Huxley,

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). Two books on Byron (Bairon v gody izgnaniya (Byron in the years of exile), 1974, Liricheskaya poeziya Bairona (Byron's Lyrical Poetry), 1975) arose from a long and careful (for more than two years) editing of the translation of the poem ''

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'' performed by Tatyana Grigorievna Gnedich .

Legacy

Monographs

* Джон Голсуорси. — Л.; М.: Искусство, 1960. 132 с. (

John Galsworthy John Galsworthy (; 14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include ''The Forsyte Saga'' (1906–1921) and its sequels, ''A Modern Comedy'' and ''End of the Chapter''. He won the Nobel Prize i ...

. - Leningrad; Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1960. 132 pp.) * Лондонские романтики и проблемы английского романтизма. — Л.: Изд. ЛГУ, 1970. 232 с. (London romantics and the problems of English romanticism. - Leningrad: Leningrad State University Press, 1970. 232 pp.) * Китс и его современники. — М.: Наука, 1973. 199 с. (Keats and his contemporaries. - Moscow: Nauka, 1973. 199 pp.) * Байрон в годы изгнания. — Л.: Художественная литература, 1974. 161 с. (Byron in the years of exile. - Leningrad: Khudozhestvennaia literatura, 1974. 161 pp.) ** Байрон в годы изгнания / Н. Я. Дьяконова. — Изд. 2-е. — Москва: URSS, 2007. — 189, с. (Byron in the years of exile / N. Ya. Dyakonova. - 2nd. edition - Moscow: URSS, 2007. - 189, pp.) . * Лирическая поэзия Байрона. — М.: Наука, 1975. 168 с.(Lyrical Poetry of Byron. - Moscow: Nauka, 1975. 168 pp.) ** Лирическая поэзия Байрона / Н. Я. Дьяконова; отв. ред. М. П. Алексеев. — Изд. 2-е. — Москва: URSS, 2007. — 166, с. (Lyric Poetry of Byron / N. Ya. Dyakonova; Ed. by M.P. Alekseev. - 2nd ed - Moscow: URSS, 2007. - 166, pp. ) * Английский романтизм: Проблемы эстетики. — М.: Наука, 1978. 208 с. (English Romanticism: Problems of Aesthetics. - Moscow: Nauka, 1978. 208 pp.) * Стивенсон и английская литература XIX века / Н. Я. Дьяконова. — Л.: Изд-во ЛГУ, 1984. — 192 с. ( Stevenson and the English literature of the XIX century / N. Ya. Dyakonova. - Leningrad: Leningrad University Press, 1984. - 192 pp.) * Shelley / N. Ya. Dyakonova, A.A. Chameyev; Ed. by V.N. Sheinker; Rus. Academy of Sciences. - St. Petersburg: Nauka: St. Petersburg publishing company, 1994. - 220, pp. (Together with A.A. Chameyev).

Articles

* Творческий труд учёного: (К 75-летию академика Михаила Павловича Алексеева) // Русская литература. — 1971. — № 2. — С. 213—218. Совместно с Ю. Д. Левиным. (Creative work of the scientist: (To the 75th anniversary of Academician Mikhail Pavlovich Alekseyev) // Russkaya literatura (Russian literature) . - 1971. - No. 2. - pp 213–218. Together with Yu. D. Levin). * Чарльз Лэм и Элия // Лэм Ч. Очерки Элии. — Л.: Наука, 1979. — С. 181—208. (Charles Lamb and Elia / / Lamb Ch.

Essays of Elia ''Essays of Elia'' is a collection of essays written by Charles Lamb; it was first published in book form in 1823, with a second volume, ''Last Essays of Elia'', issued in 1833 by the publisher Edward Moxon. The essays in the collection first be ...

. - Leningrad: Nauka, 1979. - pp. 181–208.) * Джон Китс. Стихи и проза // Китс Джон. Стихотворения. — Л.: Наука, 1986. — С. 286—310. (John Keats. Poems and Prose // Keats, John. Poems. - Leningrad: Nauka, 1986. - pp. 286–310.) * Томас де Квинси — повествователь, эссеист, критик (1785—1859) // Томас Де Квинси. Исповедь англичанина, любителя опиума. — М.: Наука, 2000. — С. 335—368. — («Литературные памятники».)

Thomas De Quincey Thomas Penson De Quincey (; 15 August 17858 December 1859) was an English writer, essayist, and literary critic, best known for his ''Confessions of an English Opium-Eater'' (1821). Many scholars suggest that in publishing this work De Quince ...

as a narrator, essayist, critic (1785-1859) // Thomas De Quincey. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. - Moscow: Nauka, 2000. - pp. 335–368. - (Literary Monuments book series.) * Из истории английской литературы. Статьи разных лет. — СПб.: Алетейя, 2001. — 192 с. (From the history of English literature. Articles of different years. - St. Petersburg: Aleteya, 2001. - 192 pp.) * «Литературность» Теккерея // Известия РАН. Серия литературы и языка. — Т. 57, № 5. — М., 1998. — С. 3—14. ("Literariness" of

Thackeray William Makepeace Thackeray (; 18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was a British novelist, author and illustrator. He is known for his satirical works, particularly his 1848 novel '' Vanity Fair'', a panoramic portrait of British society, and t ...

// Izvestiya Rossiyskoy akademii nauk (Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Series on literature and language . - Vol. 57, No. 5. - Moscow, 1998. - pp. 3–14.) * Heine as an Interpreter of Byron. Nina Diakonova. \\ The Byron Journal. Jan. 1994, Num. 22, pp. 63–69.

Editing, compiling, commenting

* Байрон Дж.Г. Дон Жуан ( Byron G.G.

) / Transl. by T. Gnedich. Moscow, Leningrad. Editing (in conjunction with A.A. Smirnov). Comments. pp. 539–590. * Дьяконова Н.Я., Амелина Т.А. // Diakonova N.Ya., Amelina T.A. Хрестоматия по английской литературе XIX века // An Anthology of English Literature of the 19-th Century (in English). Изд.2. URSS. 2010. 288 с.

Reviews

* Жизнь слова (Н. Галь. Слово живое и мёртвое. М.: Книга, 1975.) // Нева. 1976. № 4. Life of the word ( N. Gal. The word alive and dead. Moscow .: Kniga Publishers, 1975.) // Neva. 1976. No.4 * Забвению не подлежит (Е. С. Чернокова. Поэзия Кристины Россетти в контексте эстетики прерафаэлитизма. It is not subject to oblivion (ES Chernokova. The poetry of Christine Rossetti in the context of the aesthetics of Pre-Raphaelism. Kharkov, 2004. 208 pp.) // Neva. 2005. No. 3 * Никто не забыт, ничто не забыто (Nobody is forgotten, nothing is forgotten) (T.G Frumenkova. Мы вышли из блокадных дней. (We came out of the

blockade A blockade is the act of actively preventing a country or region from receiving or sending out food, supplies, weapons, or communications, and sometimes people, by military force. A blockade differs from an embargo or sanction, which are le ...

days.) SPb., 2005) // Neva. 2006. No.1

Memoirs

* Фриде (To Frieda) // Zvezda. 2005. No. 3. * Минувшие дни (Past days). * Забытая поэма забытого автора (A forgotten long poem of a forgotten author). // Neva. 2006. No. 3. Together with M. M. Dyakonov.

Filmography

«Ломовая лошадь истории»
(''History's Draught-horse'') - a documentary (in Russian). Director: Edgar Bartenev, SevZapKino, St. Petersburg, 2010, 40 minutes, commissioned by the Kultura channel
Project page
on the Kultura TV channel website. * "Леди Нина" (''Lady Nina''), a documentary
On YouTube
* Воспоминания Нины Яковлевны Дьяконовой. Часть 1. О предках. (Nina Dyakonova's reminiscences. Part 1. On ancestors)
On YouTube
* Воспоминания Нины Яковлевны Дьяконовой. Часть 2. Становление. (Nina Dyakonova's reminiscences. Part 2. Becoming)
On YouTube
* Воспоминания Нины Яковлевны Дьяконовой. Часть 3. Другая эпоха. (Nina Dyakonova's reminiscences. Part 3. A different era)
On YouTube

Links

*Article on Dyakonova on the site of the series "Literary monuments"
Perlovnik
("Gems" Collection) of Igor Mikhailovich and Nina Yakovlevna Dyakonov *I. M. Dyakonov. Book of memories (Rus)
Page in honour of N. Ya. Dyakonova on the website of the Alexander Herzen Russian Pedagogical University's Philology School Dean's Office

References

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