Elena Rzhevskaya died

Today, April 25, at the age of 97, writer Elena Rzhevskaya died.

This was announced by her granddaughter, philologist and translator Lyubov sums.

Elena Moiseevna Rzhevskaya (Kagan) was born in 1919 in Gomel, in 1937-1941 she studied at the Moscow Institute of Philosophy, Literature and History.

During the Great Patriotic War, she hit the front by a military translator near Rzhev and took a pseudonym by the name of the city, was awarded orders and medals, ended the war in Berlin with the rank of lieutenant. Her husband, poet Pavel Kogan, died near Novorossiysk in 1942.

In 1948 she graduated from the A.M. Gorky, began to be published in 1950. The author of stories, stories and memories of the war.

In the 1980s, she was one of the initiators of the state and public perpetuation of the city of Rzhev in the events of the Great Patriotic War. From here the idea of ​​cities of military glory was born, one of which was Rzhev.

In 1987, she was awarded the Alexander Fadeev medal for the creation of works of literature on the heroic feat of the people in defense of the homeland, laureate of the A.D. Sakharov “For the Civil Courage of the Writer” (1996), the “Crown” award (2001), a prize of the journal Friendship of Peoples (2001). Honorary Citizen Rzheva (2000).