Background
Vigdorova, Frida was born in 1915 in Orsha.
Vigdorova, Frida was born in 1915 in Orsha.
Graduated from the Moscow Teachers’ Institute.
Taught Russian literature in schools. First work published in 1938. During the post-war period, became known as a children’s writer.
Instrumental in helping the poet Iosif Brodskii, first by making notes of his sensational trial, then by passing them to the Western press and circulating them in samizdat. Her diary was published in the almanac Vozdushnye Puti, 1965.