Taissiia Anatol'evna Bazhenova, 1900 - 1978

T. A. Bazhenova was born on 17 May 1900 into a literary family: her father, Anatolii Dmitrievich Bazhenov, was, among other things, editor of the journal Irtysh, published by the administration of the Siberian Cossacks during the Russian Civil War. It was during the Civil War, in 1918, that T. A. Bazhenova published her first work: a poem in the Omsk newspaper Zaria. On arrival in Harbin in 1920, she became a correspondent of the newspapers Russkii golos and Zaria, and also served on the staff of the Society for the Study of Manchuria (Obshchestvo izucheniia Man'chzhurskogo kraia). Upon marrying Aleksandr Stepanovich Postnikov, she assumed his last name, but generally continued to publish her writings under her maiden name.

In the United States, she was a correspondent for most of the major Russian newspapers on the West coast, also contributing articles, poems, short stories, and other pieces to journals and anthologies. Many of these are represented in the collection. Her newspaper articles primarily reflected émigré life, and included interviews with actors, writers, singers, and others.

Detailed processing and preservation microfilming for these materials were made possible by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and by matching funds from the Hoover Institution and Museum of Russian Culture. The grant also provides for depositing a microfilm copy in the Hoover Institution Archives.

The original materials and copyright to them (with some exceptions) are the property of the Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco.

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