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Ivan Venediktovich “Elagin” Matveiev

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Ivan Venediktovich “Elagin” Matveiev

Birth
Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia
Death
8 Feb 1987 (aged 68)
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
Plot
Lot 477 within Section 24
Memorial ID
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Russian poet better remembered under his pen name Ivan Elagin.
Иван Венедиктович Елагин
real name Ivan Matveyev,

was a Russian émigré poet born in Vladivostok. He was the husband of poet Olga Anstei (Ольга Анстей), best remembered for writing about the Holocaust. His "Kirillovskie iary" (another name for Babi Yar) written in 1943, was one of the first-ever literary works on the subject of 1941 massacre of Ukrainian Jews in Kiev.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Elagin_(poet)
Russian poet better remembered under his pen name Ivan Elagin.
Иван Венедиктович Елагин
real name Ivan Matveyev,

was a Russian émigré poet born in Vladivostok. He was the husband of poet Olga Anstei (Ольга Анстей), best remembered for writing about the Holocaust. His "Kirillovskie iary" (another name for Babi Yar) written in 1943, was one of the first-ever literary works on the subject of 1941 massacre of Ukrainian Jews in Kiev.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Elagin_(poet)


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