1. Marietta Sergeevna Shaginyan was a Soviet writer, historian of Armenian descent.
10 Facts About Marietta Shaginyan
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Marietta Shaginyan was one of the "fellow travelers" of the 1920s led by the Serapion Brotherhood and became one of the most prolific communist writers experimenting in satirico-fantastic fiction.
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Marietta Shaginyan received a private education, and in 1912 obtained a degree in History and Philosophy, and began her career as a writer.
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In February 1912 Shaginyan wrote to the composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, signing herself "Re".
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Marietta Shaginyan wrote the novels Mess Mend: Yankees in Petrograd, Three Looms, Hydrocentral.
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Marietta Shaginyan died in Moscow at the age of 94.
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Marietta Shaginyan alleged that in the 1920s, Shaginyan made a habit of kissing the hand of Anna Akhmatova whenever they met.
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Marietta Shaginyan's daughter Mireille Shaginian was a painter, who was married to Victor Tsigal, a Russian painter and sculptor.
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Serega's daughter Marietta Shaginyan Tsigal followed her mother's steps into acting.
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Marietta Shaginyan Shaginian has two great great grandchildren Anastasia Shaginian and her brother Andrei.