Frida Abramovna Vigdorova (16 March 1915,

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– 7 August 1965) was a

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journalist, novelist and writer. She is mostly known for her record of the trial of poet

Joseph Brodsky Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (; russian: link=no, Иосиф Александрович Бродский ; 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian and American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), USSR in 1940, ...

in 1964.

Biography

Vigdorova graduated from Moscow Pedagogic Institute. She was the author of a number of books on issues in education, including ''Diary of a Russian Schoolteacher'' (1954). She worked as a correspondent for Literaturnaya Gazeta. In 1964, Vigdorova took notes during the trial of poet

, convicted for "social parasitism". Compiled without censorship, Frida Vigdorova's account circulated in

samizdat Samizdat (russian: самиздат, lit=self-publishing, links=no) was a form of dissident activity across the Eastern Bloc in which individuals reproduced censored and underground makeshift publications, often by hand, and passed the document ...

and made its way to the West.

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1915 births 1965 deaths People from Orsha People from Orshansky Uyezd Belarusian Jews Soviet journalists Soviet novelists Soviet short story writers Soviet women writers Soviet women novelists {{Belarus-bio-stub

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