Nadezhda Teffi
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Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...
- 6 October 1952, Paris) was a Russian humorist writer. Teffi is a pseudonym
Pseudonym
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. Her real name was Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Lokhvitskaya (Наде́жда Алекса́ндровна Лoхви́цкая) after her marriage Nadezhda Alexandrovna Buchinskaya (Бучи́нская). Together with Arkady Timofeevich Averchenko
Arkady Timofeevich Averchenko
Arkady Timofeevich Averchenko , was a Russian playwright and satirist. He published his stories in the journal "Satyricon", of which he was also an editor, in the series of "New Satyricon", and other publications. He published a total of around 20 books. Averchenko's satirical writings can be...
she was one of the most prominent authors of the Satiricon magazine.
Mirra Lokhvitskaya
Mirra Lokhvitskaya was a Russian poet who rose to fame in the late 1890s and, due to the flamboyantly erotic sensuality of her works, was regarded as the "Russian Sappho" by her contemporaries...
(1869–1905) was a notable Russian poet.
She had to leave Russia after the October Revolution
October Revolution
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, and died after decades of immigration in Paris
Paris
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, France. She is buried at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Cemetery, specifically the one known as Cimetière de Liers, as there are two cemeteries in the city, is a Russian Orthodox cemetery, located on Rue Léo Lagrange in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, département Essonne, France....
in France
France
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English translations
- All About Love, (story collection), Ardis Publishers, 1985.
- The Woman Question (one-act play) and Walled Up (story), from An Anthology of Russian Women's Writing, Oxford, 1994.
- Time, (story), from The Portable Twentieth Century Reader, Penguin Classics, 2003.
- Love and A Family Journey, (stories), from Russian Stories from Pushkin to Buida, Penguin Classics, 2005.
External links
- Works by Teffi on Lib.ru internet library
- Всеобщая история, обработанная «Сатириконом» - World history processed by Satiricon by Teffi, Averchenko, D'Or and others