Maria Rozanova

Maria Vasilievna Rozanova (, ; ; 27 December 1929 – 13 December 2023) was a Russian publisher, editor, and Soviet-era dissident.

Biography Maria Vasilievna Rozanova was born on 27 December 1929 in Vitebsk. She graduated from the Moscow State University. In the Soviet Union, she worked as a tour guide and taught at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography and the Abramtsevo Art College. In 1973, following the release of her husband, writer Andrei Sinyavsky, from Soviet prison camps, the couple and their son, Iegor, left the USSR for Paris, France.

For many years, Rozanova served as the chief editor of Sintaksis, a literary journal. From 1977 to 1997 - publisher and co-editor, and later editor-in-chief of the Syntax magazine. She hosted the program "We Are Abroad" on Radio Liberty.

She died on 13 December 2023, at the age of 93.