Olga Anstei

[1] She was the wife of poet Ivan Elagin (Ukrainian: Іван Єлагін).

Her "Kirillovskie iary" (another name for Babi Yar) written in 1943, was one of the first-ever literary works on the subject of 1941 massacre of Ukrainian Jews in Kiev.

[2] Olga Elagin and her husband defected together from the Soviet Union to the West in 1943.

Their works were published side by side in the poetry anthology entitled Berega: Stikhi Poetov Vtoroi Emigratsii (Shores: Poetry of the Second Emigration) by Valentina Sinkevich, the first ever collection of works by the second wave of Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union.

[4] She is buried at the Russian Orthodox Convent Novo-Diveevo in Nanuet, New York.