Olga Anstei
Illustration — Olga Anstei Olga Nikolaevna Anstei also Olga Anstey (1 March 1912 – 30 May 1985), was a Jewish-Ukrainian émigré poet from Kiev. She was the wife of poet Ivan Elagin. Best remembered for writing about the Holocaust.
Also recorded as Olga Nikolayevna Anstey · Olga N. Anstey · Olga Anstey · Olga Nikolaevna Anstei
Olga Anstei
- Full name
- Ольга Николаевна Штейнберг.
- Born
- Olga Anstei was born, sources differ on the date (on 11 March 1912 and on 12 March 1912). · Kyiv.
- Died
- Olga Anstei died on 30 May 1985. · New York City.
- Nationality
- Russian Empire, Soviet Union and United States.
- Occupation
- poet, translator and writer.
- Fields
- poetry.
- Education
- Kyiv National Linguistic University.
- Languages
- Russian.
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Illustration — Olga Anstei Olga Nikolaevna Anstei also Olga Anstey (1 March 1912 – 30 May 1985), was a Jewish-Ukrainian émigré poet from Kiev. She was the wife of poet Ivan Elagin. Best remembered for writing about the Holocaust.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Olga Anstei. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q545277 · wikipedia · Olga Anstei
In this article
Selected works
Selected works
Her "Kirillovskie iary" (another name for Babi Yar) written in 1943, was one of the first-ever literary works on the subject of 1941 massacre of Ukrainian Jews in Kiev. Olga Elagin and her husband defected together from the Soviet Union to the West in 1943. Their works were published side by side in the poetry anthology entitled Berega: Stikhi Poetov Vtoroi Emigratsii (Shores: Poetry of the Second Emigration) by Valentina Sinkevich, the first ever collection of works by the second wave of Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union. They divorced in 1950. She remarried, but divorced again. Olga Elagin died in New York City at the age of 73. She is buried at the Russian Orthodox Convent Novo-Diveevo in Nanuet, New York.
• Door in the Wall (1949) • Stephen Vincent Benet's The Devil and Daniel Webster (1960); translator • In the Way (1976)
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
Olga Anstei was born at Kyiv.
Birthplace
Olga Anstei died at New York City.
Deathplace
Kyiv.
Birth place
New York City.
Death place
Primary material
Documents and archives
reference work
- “Olga Anstei”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
authority record
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q545277: Olga Anstei
General reference · Wikidata
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Maria Gorecki Nowak. Book Reviews: Berega featuring Olga Anstei and Ivan Elagin. The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies for 1994. M.E. Sharpe. 469. 1 July 1999. 1563247518.
- 2.JewishGen Kehilalinks. Literature and Music (see: Ol'ga Anstei). Kiev Gubernia, Ukraine. 7 October 2012.
- 3.ULS Archives. Ivan Elagin Papers. Summary Information. University of Pittsburgh Library System. June 2009.
- 4.W.W.H. Anstei, Olga Nikolaevna (1912–1985). Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. 1 January 2002.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessauthority record
General reference
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 18 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Books
39,529 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Olexiy YurinAuthor
- Olfa YoussefAuthor
- Olfert DapperAuthor
- Olga AndersenAuthor
- Olga BergholzAuthor
- Olga BroumasAuthor
- Olga ChekhovaAuthor
- Olga ChuminaAuthor
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Olga Anstei?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.