Ivan Elagin (poet)
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For other poets with the same name, see Yelagin (surname).
Ivan Elagin (December 1, 1918 – February 8, 1987; Russian: Иван Венедиктович Елагин, real name Ivan Matveyev)[1] was a Russian émigré poet, one of the two most famous ones, along with Nikolai Morshen, of the second wave of Russian emigration,[2] born in Vladivostok.[3] He was the husband of poet Olga Anstei, best remembered for writing about the Holocaust.