词条 | Irina Grekova |
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BiographyHer father taught mathematics and her mother taught literature. Believing that higher mathematics was actually simpler than arithmetic, he began giving her lessons when she was only seven or eight. In 1923, when she was sixteen, she entered Petrograd University (now Saint Petersburg State University), where she studied with Boris Delaunay, Ivan Vinogradov, Gury Kolosov and Grigorii Fichtenholz, among others. In 1929, she graduated from the Physics and Mathematics Department. From 1935 to 1969, she worked at the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy then, from 1969 to 1987, at the Moscow State University of Railway Engineering. She began writing prose in 1962 and became a member of the Union of Soviet Writers in 1967. Her husband, {{ill|Dimitri Ventsel|ru|Вентцель, Димитрий Александрович}}, was a Major General and head of the ballistics department at the Air Force Academy In 2003, her novel Hostess was filmed as Bless the Woman; directed by Stanislav Govorukhin. Works in English
References1. ^Christine Rydel Russian Prose Writers After World War II 2005 - Volume 302 - Page 116 Irina Grekova (pseudonym of Elena Sergeevna Venttsel') ranks among the most prominent women writers in Soviet literature. ... Grekova was born Elena Sergeevna Dolgintsova on 21 March 1907 in Reval (now known as Tallinn, the capital of Estonia) into a ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Grekova, Irina}}2. ^ Cathy Porter, introduction to 'The Ship of Widows', Irina Grekova, 1981, English translation by Cathy Porter 1985, Virago 3 : 1907 births|2002 deaths|russian writers |
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