Aleksandra Brusztein

Aleksandra Brusztein (1900)

Grave in the Novodevichy Cemetery

Aleksandra Brusztein ( Russian Александра Яковлевна Бруштейн , also other spellings of the name, born August 11, 1884 in Vilnius , Russian Empire ; died September 20, 1968 in Moscow , Soviet Union ) was a Polish-Soviet writer.

Life

Aleksandra Brusztein was the daughter of the Jewish doctor and Polish politician Jakob Wygodski , who was a victim of the Holocaust in Vilnius in 1941 , and Elena Semonovna Jadlowkina. She attended the Bestuschewskije kursy in St. Petersburg and, after the revolution in 1905, became involved in the Political Red Cross for the political prisoners who were held in the Shlisselburg Fortress .

After the October Revolution of 1917, she worked in literacy campaigns and in political theater. She wrote more than sixty plays for children's and youth theater, including theater adaptations of subjects from classical literature, such as Don Quixote in 1928 , Uncle Tom's Hut in 1948, and in 1961 about the Dreyfus Affair , some plays also under the pseudonym A. Ya Nirge.

She wrote the memoirs “Pages of the Past” (1952) and the autobiographical trilogy “The path goes into the distance ...” (1956–1961).

Brusztein was married to the doctor Israel Sergei Brusztein (1873-1947), their daughter Nadeschda Nadeschdina (1908-1979) was a ballet dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet and a choreographer.

literature

Locations in:

• Frida Vigdorova : Empty Eyes & Magic Eyes , in: New Leader , January 1964, Vol. 47 (1), p. 18 ISSN  0028-6044
• Catherine Schuler: Female Theatrical Entrepreneurs in the Silver Age: A Prerevolutionary Revolution , in: Theater History Studies, January 1993, Vol. 13, p. 79 ISSN  0733-2033

Web links

• Literature by and about Aleksandra Brusztein in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ on Sergei Brusztein see Бруштейн, Сергей Александрович in the Russian Wikipedia