Background
MATVEYEVA, Novella was born on October 7, 1934 in. Pushkin, near Leningrad. Daughter of Nikolai Nikolaevitch MatveyerBodryi and Nadejda Timofeevna Matveyeva (Orleneva).
MATVEYEVA, Novella was born on October 7, 1934 in. Pushkin, near Leningrad. Daughter of Nikolai Nikolaevitch MatveyerBodryi and Nadejda Timofeevna Matveyeva (Orleneva).
A Gipsy Girl 1966, What a Strong Wind! 1966, Poems and Songs 1973, A Princess on a Peascom 1980, A Trail is my Home 1982, (with Ivan Kiuru) The Music of Light 1984. My Small Raven 1985, Ballads 1985, A Red-haired Girl 1986.Her first collection of poetry was publishhed in 1961, the same year she was admitted to the Union of Soviet Writers. Since the end of the 1950s, Novella Matveyeva has been composing songs to her poetry and performing them, accompanying herself on a seven-string guitar.
Married Ivan Semjonovitch Kiuru in 1963.