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nina gagen-torn

nina gagen-torn -lrb- ; -- june 4 , 1986 -rrb- was a russian and soviet poet , writer , historian and ethnographer .
she was born in st. petersburg to a noble -lrb- `` dvoryan '' -rrb- family of baron ivan eduardovich gagen-torn , physician , russified swede .
she graduated from the petrograd institute of geography and post-graduate course of the petrograd university -lrb- 1924 -rrb- .
she was a lecturer , worked in the museum of ethnography and was secretary of the magazine `` soviet ethnography '' -lrb- 1934 -rrb- .
during the great purge she spent the years of 1936-1942 in kolyma labor camps -lrb- sevvostlag `` directorate of northeastern camps '' -rrb- and 1942-1943 in exile .
in 1946 she earned the degree of kandidat in ethnography with thesis `` elements of dress of volga peoples as a material for ethnogenesis '' .
she was repressed for the second time during 1947-1952 and served in mordovia -lrb- temlag , reorganized into dubravlag in 1948 -rrb- after serving the term she was permanently exiled to yenisey .
with the end of the stalinist era she was amnestied on april 16 , 1954 and fully rehabilitated in 1956 .
most of her research was in the area of ethnography of the peoples of the soviet union , russian and bulgarian folklore , and the history of the russian ethnography .
she also published short stories and poems .
two booklets of her poems were published posthumously .
from 1964 , she devoted herself to the study of `` the tale of igor 's campaign '' and put forth a number of original hypotheses .
