Nadezhda Merder
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| Born | Nadezhda Ivanovna Svechina 1839 |
| Died | 13 March 1906 Moscow, Russian Empire |
| Occupation(s) | writer, playwright |
Nadezhda Ivanovna Merder (Russian: Надежда Ивановна Мердер, née Svechina, Свечина, born 1839, — died 13 March 1906) was a Russian writer and playwright, better known under her pen name N. Severin (Н. Северин).
Born to a retired military man belonging to an old Russian rural gentry family, she debuted in . Of the several plays she wrote for theatre, the best known was Happiness in Marriage (Супружеское счастье, 1884).
Forgotten during the Soviet times, N. Severin's legacy was revived in 1990s after her Selected Works came out in 1997 via the Terra Publishers.[1][2]
References
- ^ Voyensky, Konstantin. In the Memory N.I. Merder. Istorichesky Vestnik. May 1906. Issue No. 104. pp. 557—569.
- ^ N. Severin. Biography at the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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