Tatiana Lvovna Shchepkina-Kupernik (russian: Татья́на Льво́вна Ще́пкина-Купе́рник, in Moscow,

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– July 27, 1952 in Moscow,

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) was a Russian and Soviet writer, dramatist, poet and translator.

Biography

Born in the family of Kiev advocate Lev Kupernik, Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik was a granddaughter of famous Russian actor

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and Elena Dmitrievna who was a Turkish captive during the Siege of Anapa. She graduated from the Kiev Gymnasium. In her twelfth year Shchepkina wrote a poem in honour of her grandfather. In 1892 Moscow Maly Theater staged her play called ''Summer picture''. In the 1892–1893 theatrical season Shchepkina played in the Korsh Theater. Shchepkina worked with several Russian periodicals - ''Artist'', ''Russian

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'', ''Russian Idea'', ''Northern Courier'', ''New Time'', using different literary styles. In 1895-1915 she wrote a number of prose and poetry collections. Her poem ''At Homeland'' - ''From the fallen strongholds of Port-Arthur...'' («На родине» - «От павших твердынь Порт-Артура...») written at 1905 quickly became known nationwide. She produced several well-known Russian translations of

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and

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plays. Shchepkina also translated the works of

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, John Fletcher,

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and

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into Russian. In total she translated about 60 plays into Russian, mostly during the period after the

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. She composed poetic plays of her own, mostly in one act (''Revenge of Amur'', ''Eternity in a Moment'', ''Lady with Violets'', ''Happy Women'', etc.). In 1940 she was awarded an Honoured Master of Arts of

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English translations

*''A Vision of the War'', (Poem), and ''Deborah'', (Story), from ''The Soul of Russia'', Macmillan and Co, London, 1916
from Archive.org

References

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