Nadezhda Teffi

Nadezhda Teffi

Nadezhda Teffi, known simply as Teffi, (Russian: Наде́жда Тэ́ффи) (21 May [O.S. 9 May] 1872, Saint Petersburg - 6 October 1952, Paris) was a Russian humorist writer. Teffi is a pseudonym. Her real name was Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Lokhvitskaya (Наде́жда Алекса́ндровна Лoхви́цкая) after her marriage Nadezhda Alexandrovna Buchinskaya (Бучи́нская). Together with Arkady Timofeevich Averchenko she was one of the most prominent authors of the Satiricon magazine.

Teffi's gravestone

Her birthday in various sources varies in the range 1871-1876. The most recent findings say that she was born in May 1872. Teffi's sister Mirra Lokhvitskaya (1869–1905) was a notable Russian poet.

She had to leave Russia after the October Revolution, and died after decades of immigration in Paris, France. She is buried at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery in France.

English translations

• All About Love, (story collection), Ardis Publishers, 1985.
• The Woman Question (one-act play) and Walled Up (story), from An Anthology of Russian Women's Writing, Oxford, 1994.
• Time, (story), from The Portable Twentieth Century Reader, Penguin Classics, 2003.
• Love and A Family Journey, (stories), from Russian Stories from Pushkin to Buida, Penguin Classics, 2005.

External links

• Works by Teffi on Lib.ru internet library (Russian)
• Всеобщая история, обработанная «Сатириконом» - World history processed by Satiricon by Teffi, Averchenko, D'Or and others (Russian)

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Name	Teffi, Nadezhda
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Date of birth	1872
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Date of death	6 October 1952
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