Dmitrieva, Elizaveta Ivanovna (1887–1928)

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Dmitrieva, Elizaveta Ivanovna (1887–1928)

Russian poet. Name variations: (pseudonyms) Cherubina de Gabriak; Li Sian Tszy. Born 1887 in Russia; died 1928.

Poems appeared in avant-garde journal Apollo, under pseudonym Cherubina de Gabriak (1909, 1910); worked for Apollo as translator; with Samuil Marshak, founded children's theater in Krasnodar, then worked at Petrograd's Theatre for Young Spectators (1922), writing children's plays with Marshak; published cycle of poems "The Little House Under the Pear Tree"; during Russia's turmoil, was arrested and sent to Tashkent (1927); most work remains in manuscript.

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