Maria Vasilievna Rozanova (russian: Мари́я Васи́льевна Розано́ва, born 27 December 1929,

Vitebsk Vitebsk or Viciebsk (russian: Витебск, ; be, Ві́цебск, ; , ''Vitebsk'', lt, Vitebskas, pl, Witebsk), is a city in Belarus. The capital of the Vitebsk Region, it has 366,299 inhabitants, making it the country's fourth-largest c ...

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)Oxford Journals, "Notes and queries", Volume 239, page 430, Oxford University Press, September 1994. is a publisher, editor, and Soviet-era dissident. Rozanova graduated from the

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. In the

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, she worked as a tour guide, and taught at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography and the Abramtsevo Art College. In 1973, following the release of her husband, writer

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, from Soviet prison camps, the couple and their son,

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, left the USSR for

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. For many years, Rozanova served as the chief editor of '' Sintaksis'', a literary journal.

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