Nadezhda Vadimovna Kozhevnikova is a Russian writer and journalist, and the daughter of Soviet writer Vadim Kozhevnikov

Vadim Kozhevnikov

Vadim Mikhaylovich Kozhevnikov was a Soviet writer. His daughter Nadezhda Kozhevnikova is also a writer.-Biography:Vadim Kozevnikov was born in the Siberian town of Narym , where his revolutionary-minded father had been sent as an internal exile by the authorities of the Russian Empire.Kozhevnikov...

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Biography

In her youth, Kozhevnikova devoted herself to music. She studied in the musical school attached to the Moscow Conservatory

Moscow Conservatory

The Moscow Conservatory is a higher musical education institution in Moscow, and the second oldest conservatory in Russia after St. Petersburg Conservatory. Along with the St...

. Her interest in literature, however, led her away from music. She studied at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute

Maxim Gorky Literature Institute

The Maxim Gorky Literature Institute is a higher education institute in Moscow. It is located at 25 Tver Bulvar in Central Moscow.It was founded in 1933 on the initiative of Maxim Gorky, and received its current name at Gorky's death in 1936....

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She began her literary career as a journalist. She travelled throughout the Soviet Union on assignment, writing articles concerning the problems of the day. Her first stories were published while she was still a student. She uses a conventional realistic style. Her works deal with the lives of the urban intelligentsia.

English translations

• Attorney Alexandra Tikhonovna, from Always a Woman: Stories by Soviet Women Writers, Raduga Publishers, Moscow, 1987.