Nadezhda Davydovna Volpin ( February 6, 1900 , Mogilev , Russian Empire - September 9, 1998 , Moscow , Russia ) - a Russian translator, as well as a poetess- imagist and memoirist. The actual wife of the poet S. A. Yesenin .
| Nadezhda Davydovna Volpin | |
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| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Mogilev , Russian Empire |
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| A place of death | Moscow , Russia |
| Citizenship |  USSR →  Russia |
| Occupation | , |
| Father | David Samuilovich Volpin |
| Mother | Anna Borisovna Zhislina |
| Children | Alexander Sergeevich Yesenin-Volpin |
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Biography
Father, David Samuilovich Volpin (1864, Mogilev - 1937, Moscow) [1] , graduated from Moscow University , practiced as a lawyer, translated into Russian the monograph by D. Fraser “ Folklore in the Old Testament ”; mother, Anna Borisovna Zhislina, graduated from the Warsaw Conservatory and taught music. Brother - playwright Mikhail Davydovich Volpin . [2]
Nadezhda Volpin graduated from the Khvostov Gymnasium in 1917 and entered the natural sciences department of the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow University , which she left after studying for about a year.
Even in the gymnasium, she began to write poetry (early work was not preserved). In 1920, she joined a group of imagists, performed with poetry reading from the stage (in the “ Cafe of Poets ”, “ The Pegasus Stall ”). In the same year, her friendship with Sergei Yesenin began, then for some time she lived with him in an actual marriage . In 1924, after breaking up with Yesenin, her only son, Alexander Sergeyevich Yesenin-Volpin , was born, a poet, a well-known dissident, and mathematician. [3] Later Nadezhda Davydovna married the scientist Mikhail Volkenstein . [3]
Engaged in translations from English, German, French, Latin. Translated by Ovid , Goethe , Walter Scott , Merime , Hugo , Galsworthy , Conan Doyle , Fenimore Cooper , Wells . Having learned the Turkmen language in Ashgabat , where she was evacuated during the war , she translated Turkmen poetry.
In 1984, she published her memoirs “Date with a Friend”, mainly dedicated to youth and Sergei Yesenin. The archive contains memories of friendship with Mandelstam , Pasternak , Mayakovsky .
In the last years of her life, she lived in a writing house in the metro station Airport .
She was buried at the Don cemetery [4] .
Family
- Nephew - playwright and screenwriter Mikhail Mikhailovich Bartenev (born 1953), author of the song "Black Horses" from the movie " Beautiful Seraphim ."
- Cousins - Pavel Isaakovich Kaletsky (1906-1942), literary critic, bibliographer, editor, theater and literary critic [5] ; Alexander Osipovich Fabrikant (1881-1963), agronomist, professor (father of physicist V. A. Fabrikant ); Vladimir Osipovich (Wolf Ioselevich) Fabrikant (? —1933), industrialist, Socialist-Revolutionary who escaped A.F. Kerensky from Russia.
Works
- Memoirs "Date with a friend."
Translations
- Merimee P. Bartholomew’s Night. - M., 1925.
- Galsworthy J. For Rent. - M., 1926.
- Kestner E. Fabian. - M., 1933.
- Mann T. Serious Life. - M., 1934.
- Stern L. Sentimental Journey. - M., 1935.
- Lewis E. Arrowsmith. - M., 1936.
- Scott W. Rob Roy. - M., 1937.
- Shabende. Sayat and Hemra. - Ashgabat, 1945.
- Goethe I.V. Roman elegies. - M., 1950.
- Byron D. In the footsteps of Horace. - M., 1953.
- Fielding G. Joseph Andrus. Jonathan Wilde. - M., 1954.
- Bronte E. Wuthering Heights. - M., 1956.
- Shipyard F. Verdi. - M., 1962.
- By E. Poems. - M., 1972.
- Thackeray W. In a noble family. - M., 1976.
- Cooper F. Prairie. - M., 1980.
- Wells G. Country of the Blind. - M., 1981.
Notes
- ↑ The birth record of D. S. Volpin in the metric books of the office of the city rabbi Mogilev reads: “Dovid, the son of Shmuel Meerovich Volpin and Tsivya Abram-Aronovna Dayhelman, was born in Mogilev on November 22 (fifth day of the month of Kislev) in 1864.” The record is available on the website of the Jewish genealogy JewishGen.org (database on Belarus, registration required).
- ↑ Mikhail Volpin
- ↑ 1 2 Alexander Yesenin-Volpin: “My father's surname only prevented me from speaking essentially!”, New Russian Word, October 2005 (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment November 12, 2007. Archived November 7, 2007.
- ↑ Tomb of N. D. Volpin
- ↑ Protocol of interrogation of M. D. Volpin
Links
- N. D. Volpin on the website Poetry of Moscow University
- On the site of S. A. Yesenin
- History of the novel by S. Yesenin and N. Volpin (inaccessible link)
- Nadezhda Volpin at the Rodovod . Tree of ancestors and descendants