Maria Razumovsky

Maria Gräfin Razumovsky von Wigstein (9 March 1923 – 04 October 2015) was an Austrian librarian and writer. A Sudeten German expelled from Czechoslovakia after World War II, she worked at the Austrian National Library for four decades, with her work including serving as head of Russian literature acquisitions and of international relations. She was also a United Nations official and served as interim secretary of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions for a short time in 1962. She also wrote and edited several scholarly works, including two books on Marina Tsvetayeva. Biography Maria Gräfin Razumovsky von Wigstein She was one of five children born to white émigré landowner Andreas Razumovsky (1892–1981) and (1895–1983). Her family was expelled from Czechoslovakia after World War II, and moved to Vienna in 1946.

Through her brother Andreas, Razumovsky was sister-in-law of journalist the paternal aunt of artist and historian and activist Gregor Razumovsky. She was active in the Russian Orthodox Church, being part of a church choir at a Vienna church. Marina Tsvetayeva: A Critical Biography (1989) Die Rasumovskys: Eine Familie am Zarenhof (1998)

Translations and others Nach der Dämmerung (1976; original by ) Zwetajewa, Marina: Briefe an Vera Bunina und Dimitrij Schachowskoy (1991; original by Tsvetaeva)