Olga Nikolayevna Chyumina (russian: Ольга Николаевна Чюмина, 7 January 1865,

Novgorod Veliky Novgorod ( rus, links=no, Великий Новгород, t=Great Newtown, p=vʲɪˈlʲikʲɪj ˈnovɡərət), also known as just Novgorod (), is the largest city and administrative centre of Novgorod Oblast, Russia. It is one of the ol ...

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, - 8 September 1909,

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, Russian Empire) was a

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and

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from the Russian Empire. Bykov, P.br>Olga Chyumina
at the Great Russian Biographical Dictionary. 1911 Having debuted as a published author in 1882, she contributed regularly to '' Vestnik Evropy'', '' Russkaya Mysl'', '' Severny Vestnik'', '' Russkoye Bogatstvo''. Her popular books of poetry included ''Poems'' (1897), ''New Poems'' (1905) and ''Autumn Whirlwinds'' (Осенние вихри, 1908). During the

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, she wrote the satirical, anti-Tsarist 'feuilletons in verse' (using the pen names Cat the Fighter and Optimist) which were collected in the books ''In Waiting'' (В ожидании, 1905) and ''The Days of Freedom'' (На темы дней свободы, 1906). Chyumina authored two novels in the genre of psychological drama, ''For Life and for Death'' (На жизнь и на смерть, 1895) and ''For the Sins of Fathers'' (За грехи отцов, 1896), as well as about twenty plays. Some of them, like ''Redemption'' (Искупление), ''In Dragnets'' (В сетях), ''The Dream'' (Мечта) and ''Extinguished Spark'' (Угасшая искра) have been produced by the

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. Her collection ''Dramas and Translations'' came out in Moscow in 1904. Among the poets and dramatists whose work she translated into Russian, were Jose-Maria de Heredia, Sully Prudhomme,

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, Alfred Tennyson and

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, as well as

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and

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.Nikolskaya, T. L
ЧЮМИНА, Ольга Николаевна
Biography at the Brief Literary Encyclopedia

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