Background
Natalia Evgenievna Stempel was born on September 7, 1908 in Voronezh, Russian Federation.
Natalia Evgenievna Stempel was born on September 7, 1908 in Voronezh, Russian Federation.
In 1930, Natalia Evgenievna graduated from the literary and linguistic department of the pedagogical faculty of Voronezh State University.
In 1935-1971 Natalia Evgenievna taught Russian language and literature at the Voronezh Aviation College (now Air Force Academy named after Professor N. E. Zhukovsky and Yu. A. Gagarin).
In February 1936, she met with the exiled poet and literary critic S. Rudakov, and in early September 1936, with exiled Osip Emilievich and Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam, with whom she quickly became friends. Thanks to the Natalia Evgenievna, was saved many archival materials related to Mandelstam. Osip Emilievich devoted several poems to Natalia Evgenievna, including "Involuntarily falling into dead land..." and "There are women, relatives of the damp land..." (May 1937). After the poet’s death, she often met with his widow (in Moscow and Voronezh) and corresponded with her.
Natalia Evgenievna also was acquainted with Anna Andreevna Akhmatova.
The author of the memoirs "Mandelstam in Voronezh" (first published in the New World Journal, 1987). In the memoir book of Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam "About Akhmatova" (Moscow, 2007) 138 author’s letters to Natalia Evgenievna (1952-1976) were published.