Markstein, Elisabeth, 1929-
Person
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Elisabeth Markstein Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0017
Abstract
Elisabeth Markstein (1929-2013) was highly regarded for her translations from Russian to German, including Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago (under the pen name Anna Peturnig). She was also a teacher and literary scholar as well as a staunch supporter of the dissident writers in the Soviet Union. This collection consists of personal documents, correspondence (family, personal, and professional), papers dealing with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, scholarly research materials, photographs, and...
Dates:
1890s-2013; Majority of material found in ( 1930s-1990s)