Nadezhda Mandelstam

Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam (Russian: Надежда Яковлевна Мандельштам, IPA: [nɐˈdʲeʐdə ˈjakəvlʲɪvnə mənʲdʲɪlʲˈʂtam]; née Khazina [Хазина]; 30 October [O.S. 18 October] 1899  29 December 1980) was a Russian-Jewish writer, translator, educator, linguist, and memoirist.

Nadezhda Mandelstam
Nadezhda Mandelstam, 1925
Born
Nadezhda Khazina

(1899-10-30)October 30, 1899
DiedDecember 29, 1980(1980-12-29) (aged 81)
Resting placeKuntsevo Cemetery
SpouseOsip Mandelstam

She is the author of two memoirs about her life with her husband Osip Mandelstam and the repressive Stalinist regime they faced: Hope Against Hope (1970) and Hope Abandoned (1974), both first published in the West in English, translated by Max Hayward.