Maria Vasilievna Rozanova (born 1930) is a publisher, editor, and Soviet-era dissident.

Rozanova graduated from the Moscow State University

Moscow State University

Lomonosov Moscow State University , previously known as Lomonosov University or MSU , is the largest university in Russia. Founded in 1755, it also claims to be one of the oldest university in Russia and to have the tallest educational building in the world. Its current rector is Viktor Sadovnichiy...

. In the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

, she worked as a tour guide, and taught at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography

Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography

The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography All-Russian State University of Cinematography named after S. A. Gerasimov), VGIK for short, is a film school in Moscow, Russia.-History:...

 and the Abramtsevo Art College. In 1973, following the release of her husband, writer Andrei Sinyavsky

Andrei Sinyavsky

Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky was a Russian writer, dissident, political prisoner, emigrant, Professor of Sorbonne University, magazine founder and publisher...

, from Soviet prison camps, the couple left the USSR for Paris

Paris

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, France

France

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. For many years, Rozanova served as the chief editor of Sintaksis

Sintaksis

Sintaksis: publitsistika, kritika, polemika , was a journal published in Paris in 1978-2001 with Maria Rozanova as chief editor. A total of 37 issues of the journal were published before the journal was discontinued. According to Rozanova, there are no plans to resume publication.-Publications:*...

, a literary journal.