Vera Zvyagintseva

Vera Klavdievna Zvjaginceva or Zvyagintseva (Russian: Вера Клавдиевна Звягинцева; 1894-1972) was a Russian actress, poet, translator and memoirist. She translated poetry from Armenian to Russian including the poetry of Gevorg Emin,[1] and that of Rachiya Ovanesyan.[2]

Life

Levon Mkrtchyan at tombstone of Vera Zvyagintseva

Zvyagintseva was friends with many artists and writers, including Marina Tsvetaeva, Sophia Parnok,[3] and Boris Pasternak.[4] She met Tsvetaeva in Moscow in summer 1919.[5]

In summer 1933 Zvyagintseva was ill with acute colitis and dysentery. Sophia Parnok, herself in the last year of her life, wrote to her lover about Zvyagintseva:

I feel very sad not to be taking care of her when she's so unwell! She was so good and sympathetic to me when I was sick [...] She always has such awful and prolonged illnesses that I get very frightened for her when she gets sick. If she passed away, it would be a big blow to me – I would lose a poet who is close to me and a friend to whom i have confided my amorous woes. She is our friend, mine and yours. Think of her with love and hope that she lives![3]

Works

  • Na mostu: stikhotvorenii︠a︡. Moscow, 1922.
  • Poėzii︠a︡ sovetskoĭ Armenii : sbornik. Moscow: Gos. izd-vo khudozh. lit-ry, 1947.
  • Narty: kabardinskiĭ epos. Moscow, 1957.
  • Ispovedʹ. Stikhi. Moscow: Sovetskiĭ Pisatelʹ, 1967.
  • Izbrannye stikhi. Moscow, 1968.

References

  1. ^ Z. G. Aryan (2017). "Love Lyrics Gevorg Emin in Translations by Vera Zvyagintseva". Nauchnyi Dialog (in Russian) (3): 82–91. doi:10.24224/2227-1295-2017-3-82-91.
  2. ^ Airyan Zarui Gevorkovna (2016). "The theme of nature in the poems by Rachiya Ovenesyan in the translations by Vera Zyvagintseva". Philology. Theory & Practice (in Russian). 56 (2): 10–13.
  3. ^ a b Diana L. Burgin (1994). Sophia Parnok: The Life and Work of Russia's Sappho. NYU Press. p. 242. ISBN 978-0-8147-1221-4.
  4. ^ Evgeniĭ Borisovich Pasternak (1990). Boris Pasternak: The Tragic Years 1930-60. Collins Harvill. p. 169. ISBN 978-0-00-272045-8.
  5. ^ David M. Bethea (2014). Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile. Princeton University Press. p. 187. ISBN 978-1-4008-6374-7.