Background
Sedakova was born in Moscow and graduated from Moscow State University (faculty of philology) in 1973.
Sedakova was born in Moscow and graduated from Moscow State University (faculty of philology) in 1973.
In 1985, she obtained a degree of Candidate of Sciences (philology).
She has been described as "one of the best confessional Christian poets writing in Russian today". Subsequently, she went to graduate school. She befriended Venedikt Yerofeyev and kept the manuscript of Moscow-Petushki in her house.
A deeply religious person, Sedakova started writing poetry in 1960.
The Christian subject matter made her Neoclassical works unpublishable in the Soviet Union until 1989. As of 2014, she has authored seven books of poetry.
Her poems were translated into a number of languages including English, French, German, and Italian. lieutenant was through her mentor Sergei Averintsev that Sedakova became involved in the ecumenist movement.
She is known to have exchanged poetry collections with John Paul II who presented the inaugural Vladimir Solovyov Prize to her (1998).