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Sofia Polyakova (Sofia Viktorovna Polyakova) was born on 1914 in Petrograd, USSR, is an A soviet women academics. Discover Sofia Polyakova's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 80 years old?

Popular As Sofia Viktorovna Polyakova
Occupation academic
Age 80 years old
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Born 1914
Birthday 1914
Birthplace Petrograd, USSR
Date of death 1994
Died Place Saint Petersburg, Russia
Nationality Russia

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1914

Sofia Polyakova (София Викторовна Полякова, 1914–1994) was a Soviet classical philologist, Byzantine specialist and scholar of ancient Greek and Byzantine authors.

She published the first collection of the works of the Russian poet Sophia Parnok and was the first scholar to unravel the relationship of Parnok and Marina Tsvetaeva.

Her work on Parnok, revived scholarly interest in the poet.

Sofia Viktorovna Polyakova was born in Petrograd in 1914.

Besides a brief period during World War II when she lived in Moscow, Polyakova spent her entire life in Saint Petersburg.

1938

In 1938, she graduated from Leningrad State University with a degree in classical philology.

As soon as she graduated, Polyakova began working in the philology department as a teaching assistant.

1941

Between 1941 and 1944, she worked at the Soviet Information Bureau in Moscow, but when the war ended, she returned to Leningrad and resumed her position at the university.

1945

In 1945, she completed her thesis, Semantics of the imagery of the ancient historical epic (5th century BC - 1st century AD) and was promoted to an assistant professor.

Polyakova taught ancient Greek and Byzantine literature and was known as an expert on Byzantine translations, as well as Russian poets of the Silver Age.

She was known as an exacting teacher and allowed her students to call on her at home for help with their studies.

Polyakova shared an apartment with Irina Vladimirovna Felenkovskaya (Ирина Владимировна Феленковская) and their dogs.

1972

She taught at Leningrad University until 1972, retiring as soon as she was eligible.

Though she enjoyed teaching, she preferred pursuing translations and studies of literary figures.

Much of her work was not published in Russia in her lifetime, as she was neither worried about political correctness, nor the fact that some viewed her work as Eurocentric.

In fact, she argued that cosmopolitanism developed a heightened sense of appreciation for one's homeland.

1979

In 1979, Polyakova published София Парнок: Собрание стихотворения (Sophia Parnok: Collected Works), the first complete collection of the Russian poet, with Ardis Press of Ann Arbor, Michigan.

1983

Then in 1983, she published Незакатные оны дни: Цветаева и Парнок (Those Unfading Days: Tsvetaeva and Parnok) also with Ardis Press, which was the first work by a scholar to identify Parnok as the woman friend in Marina Tsvetaeva's Girlfriend cycle.

Later scholars of both women poets, like Diana Burgin and Simon Karlinsky drew heavily from Polyakova's work in their biographies and her scholarship revived academic interest in Parnok in both the United States and later in Russia.

1994

Polyakova died from heart disease on 30 April 1994 in Saint Petersburg.

Posthumously several of her works were published and her papers were filed at the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art.

1998

The book was not published in the USSR and a Russian edition would not be released until 1998, after Polyakova's death.