Vera Klavdievna Zvjaginceva or Zvyagintseva (russian: Вера Клавдиевна Звягинцева; 1894-1972) was a Russian actress, poet, translator and memoirist. She translated poetry from

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to Russian including the poetry of

Gevorg Emin Gevorg Emin (, September 30, 1919 – June 11, 1998) was an Armenian poet, essayist, and translator. Biography Emin, the son of a school teacher, was born in the town of Ashtarak. In 1927, his family moved to Yerevan, the capital of Sovie ...

, and that of Rachiya Ovanesyan.

Life

Zvyagintseva was friends with many artists and writers, including Marina Tsvetaeva,

Sophia Parnok Sophia Yakovlevna Parnok (russian: София Яковлевна Парнок, yi, סאָפיאַ פארנוכ; 30 July 1885 O.S./11 August 1885 (N. S.) – 26 August 1933) was a Russian poet, journalist and translator. From the age of six, ...

, and

Boris Pasternak Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (; rus, Бори́с Леони́дович Пастерна́к, p=bɐˈrʲis lʲɪɐˈnʲidəvʲɪtɕ pəstɛrˈnak; 30 May 1960) was a Russian poet, novelist, composer and literary translator. Composed in 1917, Pa ...

. She met Tsvetaeva in

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in summer 1919. In summer 1933 Zvyagintseva was ill with acute colitis and

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. Sophia Parnok, herself in the last year of her life, wrote to her lover about Zvyagintseva:

Works

* ''Na mostu: stikhotvorenii︠a︡''. Moscow, 1922. * ''Poėzii︠a︡ sovetskoĭ Armenii : sbornik''. Moscow: Gos. izd-vo khudozh. lit-ry, 1947. * ''Narty: kabardinskiĭ epos''. Moscow, 1957. * ''Ispovedʹ. Stikhi''. Moscow: Sovetskiĭ Pisatelʹ, 1967. * ''Izbrannye stikhi''. Moscow, 1968.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zvyagintseva, Vera 1894 births 1972 deaths Russian women poets 20th-century Russian translators Translators to Russian Translators from Armenian 20th-century Russian women