Teffi N.А. (1872-1952), writer

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TEFFI (nee Lokhvitskaya, married name Buchinskaya) Nadezhda Alexandrovna (1872, St. Petersburg - 1952), a prose writer, poet, and playwright. She first appeared in the press in 1901 with a poem I Have A Dream, Both Wonderful and Wild.... She contributed to many periodicals, and was especially good at satirical articles. From 1908 she had been one of the leading contributors for the Satirikon journal. She published her first collections of poems Seven Lights in 1910, the same year her collection Humorous Stories appeared. In 1910-18 the collections of her stories came out almost every year; many of them were repeatedly reprinted. Teffi therefore was one of the most published authors in Russia. From the autumn of 1919 she lived in Paris, where she continued her literary work. Teffi's works, due to the refined brevity of speech and their gentle lambent humour devoid of didacticism enjoyed a great popularity. She left her Memoirs (1931). In St. Petersburg (Petrograd), she lived at 13 Borovaya Street.

References: Аверин Б. В., Нитрауэр Э. Тайна смеющихся слов // Тэффи. Смешное в печальном: Рассказы. Авантюрный роман. Портреты современников. М., 1992. С. 3-16.

M. V. Zakharova. Teffi Nadezhda Alexandrovna
Borovaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 13
Аверин Б. В., Нитрауэр Э. Тайна смеющихся слов // Тэффи. Смешное в печальном: Рассказы. Авантюрный роман. Портреты современников. М., 1992 Satirikon, journal