Veronika Tushnova
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Veronika Mikhailovna Tushnova was a Soviet poet and member of the USSR Union of Writers
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where she studied for four years prior to 1935.
In 1936, after the death of her father and mother, she moved back to Leningrad, where she received her medical degree, but she found little satisfaction in being a doctor. At this time she married a psychiatrist named George Rozinsky.
She served in World War 2. Her first works were printed in 1944. She published several collections of poems: First Book (1945), Pathway (1954). Her keen lyrical talent was revealed in the collections Memory of the Heart (1958), One Hundred Hours of Happiness (1965) and others, in which she writes about higher love and calls for truly human relations among people.
She also worked as a literary translator. She died from Cancer in Moscow on July 7, 1965.
In her last years Tushnova was involved in an affair with the poet Alexander Yashin
, but he couldn't leave his family (Yashin had seven children.) Yashin died exactly three years after Tushnova, also from cancer.
USSR Union of Writers
The USSR Union of Writers, or Union of Soviet Writers was a creative union of professional writers in the USSR. It was founded in 1932 on the initiative of the Central Committee of the Communist Party after disbanding a number of other writers' organizations: RAPP, Proletkult, and VOAPP.The aim of...
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Biography
Tushnova graduated from high school where she had pursued advanced studies of foreign languages. After graduating, at the insistence of her father, who wanted her to be a doctor, she entered the Leningrad Medical InstituteSaint Petersburg State Medical Academy
The St. Petersburg I. I. Mechnikov State Medical Academy is a public university located in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. The SPSMA is one of the oldest and largest Russian Higher Medical Schools. Over its 100 years of history, the Academy remains a leading institution of Russia in medicine...
where she studied for four years prior to 1935.
In 1936, after the death of her father and mother, she moved back to Leningrad, where she received her medical degree, but she found little satisfaction in being a doctor. At this time she married a psychiatrist named George Rozinsky.
She served in World War 2. Her first works were printed in 1944. She published several collections of poems: First Book (1945), Pathway (1954). Her keen lyrical talent was revealed in the collections Memory of the Heart (1958), One Hundred Hours of Happiness (1965) and others, in which she writes about higher love and calls for truly human relations among people.
She also worked as a literary translator. She died from Cancer in Moscow on July 7, 1965.
Family
She was married twice, but both marriages ended in divorce. She had a daughter from her first marriage named Natalia (Natalia Rozinskaya).In her last years Tushnova was involved in an affair with the poet Alexander Yashin
Alexander Yashin
Alexander Yakovlevich Yashin was a Soviet writer associated with the Village Prose movement.-Early life:Alexander was born in northern Russia in the village of Bludnovo, Vologda Region, into a poor peasant family. Yashin finished a teacher's training college, and spent some time teaching in a...
, but he couldn't leave his family (Yashin had seven children.) Yashin died exactly three years after Tushnova, also from cancer.
Poetry collections
- Первая книга- First Book (1945)
- Пути-дороги- Pathway (1954)
- Дорога на Клухор- The Road to Klukhor (1956)
- Память сердца- Memory of the Heart (1958)
- Второе дыхание- Second Wind (1961)
- Лирика- Lyrics (1963, 1969)
- Сто часов счастья- One Hundred Hours of Happiness (1965)
- Стихи- Poems (1969)