Olga Chyumina, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Olga Chyumina

Russian poet and translator

Date of Birth: 07-Jan-1865

Place of Birth: Veliky Novgorod, Novgorod Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 08-Sep-1909

Profession: writer, poet, translator

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Olga Nikolayevna Chyumina (Russian: ????? ?????????? ??????, 7 January 1865, Novgorod, Russian Empire, - 8 September 1909, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian poet, novelist, playwright and translator.Having debuted as a published author in 1882, she contributed regularly to Vestnik Evropy, Russkaya Mysl, Severny Vestnik, Russkoye Bogatstvo.
Her popular books of poetry included Poems (1897), New Poems (1905) and Autumn Whirlwinds (??????? ?????, 1908).
During the 1905 Revolution, she wrote satirical, anti-Tsarist 'feuilletons in verse' (using the pen names Cat the Fighter and Optimist) which were collected in the books In Waiting (? ????????, 1905) and The Days of Freedom (?? ???? ???? ???????, 1906). Chyumina authored two novels in the genre of psychological drama, For Life and for Death (?? ????? ? ?? ??????, 1895) and For the Sins of Fathers (?? ????? ?????, 1896), as well as about twenty plays.
Some of them, like Redemption (??????????), In Dragnets (? ?????), The Dream (?????) and Extinguished Spark (??????? ?????) have been produced by the Alexandrinka.
Her collection Dramas and Translations came out in Moscow in 1904. Among the poets and dramatists whose work she translated into Russian, were Jose-Maria de Heredia, Sully Prudhomme, Leconte de Lisle, Robert Hamerling, Alfred Tennyson and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, as well as William Shakespeare and Friedrich Schiller.