Andreeva, Victoria Alekseevna

Born on January 21, 1942 in Omsk . She grew up in Moscow , where she graduated from high school and then the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University in 1965, defending her thesis. She studied at the graduate school at Columbia University in New York at the department of "comparative literature".

Formed in the atmosphere of the Russian sixties, marked by a spiritual upsurge and the discovery of new layers of domestic and foreign culture, Victoria Andreeva began to write poetry from the beginning of the 1960s. In 1969, she married writer and poet Arkady Borisovich Rovner . At the same time, she joined the unofficial direction in literature, which includes such poets as Leonid Aronzon , Ilya Bokshtein , Stanislav Krasovitsky , Leonid Ioffe, Dmitry Avaliani , Valentin Nikitin, Henri Volokhonsky , writers Arkady Rovner, Yuri Mamleev , Nikolai Bokov, Venedikt Erofeev , artist Boris Kozlov, writer and artist Vladimir Covenatsky . In 1974 she emigrated to the USA. In New York, together with Arkady Rovner, she created the Gnosis Press publishing house, which published the bilingual religious and philosophical literary magazine Gnosis (No. 1-12, 1978-2006), devoted to the synthesis of spiritual traditions and new directions in literature, for children the bilingual journal “This and that” (New York, 1978-1980), as well as books of poetry and prose by Russian and American poets and writers. In the West, Victoria Andreeva discovered rare layers of the culture of Russian emigration, in particular Russian writers and poets in Paris of the 30s, as well as European and American literature and art, and wrote about them literary articles published in the journal Gnosis, and also in exile and American periodicals. She met and made friends with authors such as the writer Vasily Yanovsky, poets Eugene Daniel Richie, Rosana Wasserman, Stephen Sartarelli, Daniel Gabriel, Kathleen Rain, Richard McCain, Jeffrey Godbert and Elizabeth Richie, and translated their verses from English into Russian. In addition, poems of such poets as Rainer Maria Rilke and Georg Trakl (from German), Edgar Alan Poe , Ezra Pound , Robert Graves , Emily Dickinson , Christina Rossetti and William Butler Yates (from English) were translated into Russian.

In 1980-1983, together with Arkady Rovner and two New York poets, Eugene Daniel Ritchie and Stephen Sartarelli, she published the “Gnosis Anthology of Contemporary Russian and American Literature and Art” in two volumes in two languages, published in New York in 1982 -1983 years. She taught courses in Russian literature and contemporary areas of literature and art at New School for Social Research in New York. In 1987, in New York, the Gnosis Press published her book of poems, “Sleep Hard”. Two years later, in 1989, the book was reprinted with parallel English translations by the London poet and translator, Richard McCain, as "The Dream of the Firmament." At the same time, her “Telephone Novel” was written - a novel with an experimental form, consisting mainly of telephone conversations of a lone Russian writer, an immigrant in New York. “Telephone Novel” was subsequently released in 1997 in Vilnius, by Gera Diena; a peculiar character and the tragic fate of the main character emerges in it, combined with her courage and heroism in the encounter with perverse life circumstances. In 1989, together with Arkady Rovner, she wrote the play “P. Y. Chaadaev ”, published in 1989 by the Gnosis Press publishing house together with Alternate Currents. In the play, written in a modernist manner, from the point of view of Chaadayev's ideas, a criticism of the state of the modern world is presented.

Since 1989, poems by Viktoria Andreeva have been published in national periodicals. Since 1994, she again lived in Moscow. She was one of the editors and compilers of the Encyclopedia of Symbols, Signs and Emblems (Moscow, Lokid-Myth Publishing House 1997, second edition 1998), the early Christian literature series Teachers of the Undivided Church (Ecclesia Press Publishing House), and also a series of sounding poetry on compact discs, “The Anthology of Contemporary Russian Poetry” (project by Alexander Babushkin). As part of the last series, a CD of her poems “The Hard Rock” (2001) was released, as well as a CD of Konstantin Vaginov (2000) and Leonid Aronzon (2003) in her reading. Victoria Andreeva took an active part in the creation of the spiritual direction of the “School of States” and the “Institute of Culture of Conditions”, founded by Arkady Rovner, based on the tradition of working with the state, based on the development of vertical memory and a conscious presence in everyday life, combining elements of diverse traditions. She died on February 11, 2002, she was buried in the Nikolo-Arkhangelsk cemetery .

In 2002, the Publishing House Library of the Commentary Publishing House posthumously published her book of poetry, "The Hard Rock," which is an extended version of the New York edition. Her poems are published in many Russian and foreign literary magazines and poetry sites.

Music written by Viktoria Andreeva’s verses by composers Mark Belodubrovsky (“Bright Dreams” for the children's choir, 1998) and Anton Rovner (“I bowed the branches evening”, melodclamation for the reader and piano, 2003, “Through the Shadow of Peace” for soprano , flutes and violins ", 2004)

• Sleep firmly. - New York: Gnosis Press, 1987. - ISBN 85-082476.

• Sleep firmly. - New York: Gnosis Press Alternate Currents, 1989. - ISBN 0-922792-16-X .

• Sleep firmly. - Moscow: Library of the journal "Comments", 2002. - ISBN 0-922792-73-9 .

• P.Ya. Chaadaev (co-authored with Arkady Rovner). - New York: Gnosis Press Alternate currents, 1989. - ISBN 0-922792-1-4-3 .

• Phone novel. - Vilnius: Gera Diena, 1997 .-- ISBN 9986-730-14-7 .

• V. Andreeva, , A. Rovner . "Encyclopedia. Symbols, signs, emblems. " - Moscow: Astrel, AST, 2006. - ISBN 5-17-021672-6 .

• Modern literature. Andreeva Victoria Alekseevna. Sleep firmly
• Unofficial poetry. Anthology. Gnosis. VICTORIA ANDREYEV
• Mark LANDO, Victoria ANDREEVA
• Journal Hall, Victoria Andreeva
• LITERARY ARIERGARD, Victoria Andreeva
• Victoria Andreeva. Journal Electronic Pampas
• Russian Life Magazine
• Poetry of Moscow University from Lomonosov to ...
• poetry. Victoria Andreeva, Arkady Rovner. THIRD LITERATURE (inaccessible link)
• Futurum ART. The authors of Futurum. Victoria ANDREEVA
• Official site of the Philosophical Newspaper
• Journal 45th parallel
• www.port-folio.org/andreeva.html Portfolio Almanac (link not available)
• Institute of Culture of Estates - Poetic anthology by Viktoria Andreeva (inaccessible link)
• Image and Thought, Almanac Liteclub, Issue 6, June 2004
• IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WORLD - MODERN RUSSIAN POETRY
• Kassandrion Magazine, Hamburgers of Russian Poetry