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Nadezhda Alexandrovna Teffi (Russian: Наде́жда Алекса́ндровна Тэ́ффи; 21 May [O.S. 9 May] 1872, Saint Petersburg – 6 October 1952, Paris) was a Russian humorist writer. Together with Arkady Averchenko she was one of the prominent authors of the magazine Novyi Satirikon. Her year of birth is variously reported in the range 1871–1876, with the most recent findings suggesting May 1872. Teffi's sister Mirra Lokhvitskaya (1869–1905) was a notable Russian poet.

Nadezhda Teffi
BornNadezhda Alexandrovna Lokhvitskaya
21 May [O.S. 9 May] 1872
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died6 October 1952(1952-10-06) (aged 80)
Paris, France
Resting placeSainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
Pen nameTeffi
Occupationwriter, playwright
RelativesMirra Lokhvitskaya

Biography


Teffi was born as Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya into a family of gentry. Her father, Alexander Vladimirovich Lokhvitsky, a lawyer and scholar, was prominent in Saint Petersburg society. Her mother, Varvara Alexandrovna Goyer, was of French descent, a lover of poetry, and familiar with Russian and European literature.[1] Teffi was first introduced to literature when, as a young girl, she read Childhood and Boyhood by Leo Tolstoy, and the fiction of Alexander Pushkin. Her own first published poetry appeared in the journal The North in 1901 under her full name. In 1905 her first story, The Day Has Passed, was published in the journal The Fields, also under her full name. It had been written in 1904 and first submitted to the journal God's World, which had turned it down.[1] In the years surrounding the Russian Revolution of 1905 she published stories with political overtones against the Tsarist government.[2]

In an answer to a questionnaire given to writers in 1911, Teffi said the following about her early literary work:[1]

The element of observation dominated my fantasy. I liked drawing caricatures and writing satirical verses. My first published work was written under the influence of Chekhov.

Teffi married Vladislav Buchinsky, a Polish lawyer and judge, but they separated in 1900. They had two daughters and a son together. She was a contributor to the first Bolshevik journal The New Life, whose editorial board included writers like Maxim Gorky and Zinaida Gippius. Her best work appeared in Satiricon magazine and the popular journal Russkoye Slovo (Russian Word). In Russia she published many collections of poetry and short stories, and a number of one-act plays.[2] She first used the pseudonym "Teffi" with the publication in 1907 of her one-act play The Woman Question. She provided two separate explanations of the name; that it was suggested to her in relation to a friend whose servant called him "Steffi", or that it came from the English rhyme "Taffy was a Welshman/Taffy was a thief."[1]

Initially a supporter of the October Revolution, she rapidly became disenchanted with the Bolsheviks and in 1919 left Saint Petersburg, and on the pretext of a theatrical tour, travelled with a group of actors across Russia and Ukraine, eventually reaching Istanbul. In 1920, she settled in Paris and began publishing her works in the Russian newspapers there. In exile, she wrote a vivid account of her escape from the Soviet Union through the chaos of the Russia Civil War (Memories, 1928–1930) and published several collections of short stories and poems and her only novel An Adventure Novel (1932). The critic Anastasiya Chebotarevskaya compared Teffi's stories, which she said were "highly benevolent in their elegiac tone and profoundly humanitarian in their attitudes", to the best stories by Anton Chekhov.[2] Teffi is buried at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery in France.

Teffi's gravestone
Teffi's gravestone

In 2018, Edythe Haber's biography of Teffi was published,[3] the first such work in any language.[4]


English translations



German translations



References


  1. Tomei, Christine (1999). Russian women writers, Volume 2. Taylor and Francis. pp. 812–821. ISBN 0-8153-1797-2. Retrieved 2012-01-26.
  2. Pachmuss, Tamira (1981). A Russian Cultural Revival. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. pp. 106–107. ISBN 0-87049-296-9.
  3. Haber, Edythe (2018). Teffi: A Life of Letters and Laughter. London: I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-1-788-31258-5.
  4. Brown, Catherine, "She Had Sweets Named After Her", Literary Review (February 2019), p.25.
  5. "Teffi – Subtly Worded cover art and synopsis". Upcoming4.me. Archived from the original on 2014-01-08. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  6. "Other Worlds". New York Review Books. Retrieved 2021-07-23.
  7. Teffi (August 2021). Other Worlds: Peasants, Pilgrims, Spirits, Saints. Pushkin Press. ISBN 978-1-78227-561-9.



На других языках

- [en] Nadezhda Teffi

[es] Nadezhda Teffi

Teffi en ruso, Тэ́ффи, (San Petersburgo, 21 de mayo de 1872, París, 6 de octubre de 1952) fue una escritora rusa. Teffi era el seudónimo de Nadezhda Aleksándrovna Lojvítskaya (Наде́жда Алекса́ндровна Лoхви́цкая), que después de su matrimonio tuvo por nombre Nadezhda Aleksándrovna Buchínskaya (Бучи́нская). Junto con Arkadi Avérchenko fue una de las autoras más destacadas de la revista Satiricon. Su año de nacimiento se informa de diversas maneras, según las fuentes, en el rango de 1871 a 1876, y los hallazgos más recientes sugieren mayo de 1872 como la fecha más probable. La hermana de Teffi, Mirra Lojvítskaya (1869-1905), fue una notable poeta rusa.

[fr] Teffi

Teffi (en russe : Тэ́ффи), née le 21 mai [O.S. 9 mai] 1872 à Saint-Pétersbourg et morte le 6 octobre 1952 à Paris, est une écrivain humoriste russe.

[ru] Тэффи, Надежда Александровна

Наде́жда Алекса́ндровна Тэ́ффи (настоящая фамилия — Лохвицкая, в замужестве — Бучинская; 9 [21] мая (по другим данным — 26 апреля [8 мая] [3]) 1872 года, Санкт-Петербург, Российская империя — 6 октября 1952 года, Париж, Франция) — русская писательница и поэтесса, мемуаристка, переводчица, автор таких знаменитых рассказов, как «Демоническая женщина» и «Ке фер». После революции эмигрировала. Сестра поэтессы Мирры Лохвицкой и генерала Николая Лохвицкого, соратника адмирала Колчака.


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