Jelena Moissejewna Rzhevskaya

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Jelena Moissejewna Rschewskaja ( pseudonym ), born Jelena Moissejewna Kagan , ( Russian Елена Моисеевна Ржевская ; born October 27, 1919 in Homel ; † April 25, 2017 in Moscow ) was a Soviet - Russian writer .

Life

Rschewskaja's father Moissei Alexandrowitsch Kagan (1889–1966), the son of a businessman, was a lawyer , became chairman of the board of the All-Ukrainian State Bank and worked in the People's Commissariat for Agriculture after the October Revolution . After the divorce in 1941 he married the doctor Bella Grigoryevna Leites for the second time . Rzhevskaya's mother was a dentist .

Rschewskaja studied 1937–1941 at the Moscow Institute for Philosophy , Literature and History, founded in 1931 . She then took part in the German-Soviet War . She came as a translator to the staff of the 30th Army under Dmitri Danilowitsch Lelyuschenko at the front near Rzhev , from which her pseudonym resulted. In 1943 she became a member of the CPSU . She took part in the battle for Berlin as a lieutenant . She was involved in the search for Hitler's body and also in the identification of the bones.

After the war, Rzhevskaya studied at Moscow's Maxim Gorky Literature Institute , graduating in 1948. She then worked as a writer. Her publications appeared from 1950. In 1962 she became a member of the Writers' Union of the USSR . She was a member of the Russian Pen Center .

In the 1980s, Rzhevskaya worked with others for state and social recognition of the special role of the city of Rzhev in the German-Soviet war. From this the idea of ​​the "city of military glory" developed, so that Rzhev was one of 40 Russian cities to receive this title.

Rschewskaja was married to the poet Pawel Dawydowitsch Kogan in the first marriage . Her daughter Olga married the chemist Boris Dawidowitsch Summ . In his second marriage in 1946 Rschewskaja married the writer Issaak Naumowitsch Kramow (1919-1979, originally Rabinowitsch, brother of the writer Leonid Naumowitsch Wolynski / Rabinowitsch). The cyberneticist Boris Moisseyevich Kagan and the physicist Yuri Moisseyevich Kagan were Rzhevskaya's brothers. The entrepreneur Leonid Borissowitsch Boguslawski and the physicist Maxim Jurjewitsch Kagan were their nephews. The actress Valentina Grigoryevna Vagrina was her cousin, while the writer Sakhar Lvovich Khazrewin , the engineer Naum Alexandrovich Rogovin, and the chemist Sakhar Alexandrovich Rogovin were her cousins.

Rzhevskaya was buried in the Kunzewoer cemetery in Moscow .

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  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h «Чем дальше мы уходим от войны…» РЖЕВСКАЯ ЕЛЕНА МОИСЕЕВНА (accessed March 11, 2020).
  2. ↑ a b Šiška, Miroslav: Žena, která odkryla pravdu o nalezení Hitlera . In: Právo . April 17, 2012 ( [1] [accessed March 11, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Умерла участвовавшая в  поисках тела Гитлера писательница Елена Ржевская . In: Культура . April 25, 2017 ( [2] [accessed March 11, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Таинственная Страна: Ржевская Елена Моисеевна (accessed March 11, 2020).
  5. ^ Antony Beevor : Hitler's Jaws of Death . In: The New York Times . October 10, 2009 ( [3] [accessed March 11, 2020]).
  6. ↑ ДОРОГОЙ ЕЛЕНЕ МОИСЕЕВНЕ РЖЕВСКОЙ ОТ ЖИТЕЛЕЙ ГОРОДА РЖЕВА (accessed March 11, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Rzhevskaya, Jelena Moissejewna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ржевская, Елена Моисеевна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet-Russian writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Homel
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 2017
Place of death Moscow