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Russian Women Writers
This is a list of women writers who were born in Russia or whose writings are closely associated with that country. A *Bella Akhmadulina (1937–2010), poet, short story writer, translator *Anna Akhmatova (1899–1966), acclaimed poet, author of ''Requiem'' *Elizaveta Akhmatova (1820–1904), "Leila" published a journal for 30 years with translations of English and French writers * Elena Akselrod (born 1932), Belarus-born Russian poet, translator * Ogdo Aksyonova (1936–1995), poet, short story writer, founder of Dolgan written literature *Margarita Aliger (1915–1992), poet, essayist, journalist *Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926–2011), daughter of Joseph Stalin, memoirist, biographer, author of ''Twenty Letters to a Friend'' * Al Altaev (1852–1959), writer for children * Tatyana Alyoshina (born 1961), singer-songwriter, poet, short story writer *Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861–1937), psychoanalyst, memoirist, literary essayist, novelist, often writing in German *Domna Anisimova (19th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eighth of Earth's inhabitable landmass. Russia extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and shares Borders of Russia, land boundaries with fourteen countries, more than List of countries and territories by land borders, any other country but China. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, world's ninth-most populous country and List of European countries by population, Europe's most populous country, with a population of 146 million people. The country's capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city is Moscow, the List of European cities by population within city limits, largest city entirely within E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Nikitichna Annenskaya
Alexandra Nikitichna Annenskaya (russian: Алекса́ндра Ники́тична А́нненская, née Tkachyova, Ткачёва; 11 July 1840 – 19 May 1915) was a Russian translator and writer who wrote feminist novels for young girls. Life Annenskaya was born in a village in Pskov Governorate, her parents came from a noble but poor family. She began to write feminist novels for young girls. Her brother was the revolutionary writer Pyotr Tkachev who was to influence Lenin. The fatherless family moved to St Petersburg when she was eleven. She was approved as a teacher by Saint Petersburg University and she established a primary school in the 1860s. Meanwhile her brother was involved in student riots. She married Nikolai Annensky in 1866. He was arrested and she served time in exile with him. Meanwhile her first novel was ''The German Teacher'' and it was published in ''Family and School'' in 1871. She wrote more articles that were published in the journal up to 1886. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Italics Are Mine
''The Italics are Mine'' is the autobiography of Nina Berberova. It was first published in the 1960s. It was re-issued in 1992 following the success of her novellas and short story collections, written in the 1930s, which had been rediscovered in the mid 1980s and published by French publishing house ''Actes Sud''. Berberova was born in Saint Petersburg in 1901. She left Russia in 1922. She and her partner, the poet Vladislav Khodasevich spent time in Czechoslovakia and Berlin before settling in Paris. She left Khodasevich in the mid-1930s. "He fears the world. I do not. He fears the future. I rush towards it." She was part of a circle of literary Russian exiles, and the book has a number of portraits of them, including Boris Pasternak, Maxim Gorky, Marina Tsvetaeva and Andrey Bely. She is critical of Mayakovsky's suicide: "He did not just shoot himself. He shot a whole generation." She left for the United States in 1950 where she found life freer than in Europe. She became a le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Berberova
Nina Nikolayevna Berberova (russian: Ни́на Никола́евна Бербе́рова) (St Petersburg, 26 July 1901 – Philadelphia, 26 September 1993) was a Russian writer who chronicled the lives of anti-communist Russian refugees in Paris in her short stories and novels. She visited post-Soviet Russia. Her 1965-revision of the Constance Garnett translation of Leo Tolstoy's ''Anna Karenina'' with Leonard J. Kent is considered the best translation so far by the academic Zoja Pavlovskis-Petit. Life Born in 1901 to an Armenian people, Armenian father and a Russian mother, Nina Berberova was brought up in Saint Petersburg. She emigrated from Soviet Russia to the Weimar Republic in 1922 with the poet Vladislav Khodasevich (who died in 1939). The couple lived in Berlin until 1924 and then settled in Paris. There, Berberova became a permanent contributor to the White émigré publication ''Posledniye Novosti'' ("The Latest News"), where she published short stories, poems, fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katerina Belkina
Katerina Belkina (russian: link=no, Катерина Белкина; born 1974, Samara, Russia) is a Russian contemporary pictoralist photographer and painter. She digitally manipulates many of her photographs to appear as paintings, and often uses herself as the model in her work. Life Belkina grew up in an artistic family. Her mother was also an artist. From 1989 Belkina studied at the Art School and the Petrow-Vodkin art academy in Samara. From 1994 to 1999 she worked at the publishing house Fedorow in Samara. In 2000 she started to study at the Michael-Musorin school for photography in her hometown where she studied till 2002. At the same time she worked as a computer graphic designer at a Russian television channel. In 2007, Belkina was nominated for the Russian Kandinsky Prize. In 2009/2010 she was at the 1st Photo Biennale of the Russian Museum at the Marble Palace in St. Petersburg. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Belakhova
Maria Belakhova (Russian: Мария Андреевна Белахова, 1903–1969) was a Russian writer and educator known for her work in children's literature and education in the Soviet Union, mentorship of many of the country's prominent children's writers, and her own works. She was editor of the Soviet magazine ''Children's Literature'' and the head of the national commission for children's literature. Biography Maria Belakhova (née Maria Bogoslovskaya) was born in the town of Old Hops near Michurinks, Russia in 1903. A thirteenth child in the family, she left the family to study. For several years she taught in an elementary school, before continuing her studies with a master's degree in child education and literature. Then she worked at the ''Children's Literature'' magazine and eventually became its editor. Later, she was elected head of the commission of the national guild of writers for children's literature. She wrote several books of her own, authored or edited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Mihaylovna Bebutova
Olga Mihaylovna Bebutova (russian: Ольга Миха́йловна Бе́бутова), maiden name Danilova (1 November 1879 — 26 March 1952), was a Russian Empire actress and writer. Her popularity was helped by her beauty (she was the winner of a Russian beauty contest in 1906). Her first husband was Prince Bebutov, her second Count Sollogub (she was called the "countess-actress"). She acted in Saint Petersburg theaters. She edited the paper ''Theater and Sport'' under the name Countess Sollogub, published novels under the name Princess Bebutova, and published theater chronicles under the name Gurielli. She was famous for being the source of scandals and mystifications. She left Russia after the October Revolution and settled in France, publishing her work in Riga, Latvia Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agniya Barto
Agniya Lvovna Barto ( rus, А́гния Льво́вна Барто́, p=ˈaɡnʲɪjə ˈlʲvovnə bɐrˈto, a=Agniya L'vovna Barto.ru.vorb.oga; – 1 April 1981) was a Soviet poet and children's writer of Russian Jewish origin. Biography Agniya was born Gitel Leybovna Volova in Moscow to a Russian Jewish family. Her father, Lev Nikolayevich Volov, was a veterinarian, and her mother, Maria (''née'' Blokh), was from Kaunas, Lithuania. Agniya studied at a ballet school. She liked poetry and soon started to write her own, trying to imitate Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Mayakovsky. She read her poetry at the graduation ceremony from the ballet school. Among the guests was the Minister of Education Anatoly Lunacharsky who remarked that instead of becoming a ballerina she should be a professional poet. According to legend, despite the fact that all of Barto's poetry at that time was about love and revolution, Lunacharsky predicted that she would become a famous children's poet. Agniya m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Barykova
Anna Pavlovna Barykova (1839–1893) was a Russian poet, satirist and translator. Life Anna Pavlovna Kamenskaia was born on 22 December 1839 in Saint Petersburg, the daughter of the writer Maria Kamenskaia and the granddaughter of the artist Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy. She was educated at home, at a state boarding school and at the Catherine Institute in Saint Petersburg, where she started writing verse. She married twice and had four children. She worked for Lev Tolstoy's publishing company as a translator, where she translated verse from French, German, English and Polish. Her first volume of poetry, ''My Muse'', was published in 1878, when she was almost 40. Supporting economic and political justice for Russia's peasantry, she became active on behalf of revolutionary groups in the early 1880s and was briefly placed under arrest. In 1883 she anonymously published 'How Tsar Akhreyan went to God to Complain', a verse satire. The work enjoyed a wide circulation as part of efforts t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Barkova
Anna Alexandrovna Barkova (russian: link=no, А́нна Алекса́ндровна Барко́ва), July 16, 1901 – April 29, 1976, was a Soviet poet, journalist, playwright, essayist, memoirist, and writer of fiction. She was imprisoned for more than 20 years in the Gulag. In 2017 a film about her life was released by Ceská , titled ''8 hlav sílenství'' (also known as ''8 Heads of Madness''), starring the popular singer Aneta Langerová; it's mainly about her life in the camps and the women she loved. Early life Anna Alexandrovna Barkova was born into the family of a private school janitor in the textile town of Ivanovo in 1901. She was allowed to attend the school because of her father's position, a rare opportunity for a young working class girl in pre-revolutionary Russia. In 1918, she enrolled as a member of the ''Circle of Genuine Proletarian Poets'', a writers group based in Ivanovo. Soon after joining she began to write short pieces for the group's paper ''The La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yekaterina Avdeyeva
(russian: Екатерина Алексеевна Авдеева; ''née'' , ; 1788–1865) was a Russian writer, known especially for her books on homemaking and collections of Russian folk tales. She was a sister of Nikolai Polevoy and Ksenofont Polevoy Ksenofont Alexeyevich Polevoy (russian: Ксенофонт Алексеевич Полевой, 1 August 1801, Irkutsk, Imperial Russia, – 21 April 1867, Tyukhmenevo, Smolensk Governorate, Imperial Russia) was a Russian writer, literary crit .... In 1837 she published a book called ''Notes and remarks about Siberia''. References 1788 births 1865 deaths Women writers from the Russian Empire 19th-century writers from the Russian Empire Russian women writers Russian food writers 19th-century women writers from the Russian Empire {{Russia-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Arefieva
Olga Arefieva (Arefeva, Russian: Ольга Арефьева) (born 1966 in Verkhnyaya Salda) is a Russian singer-songwriter, poet and musician. Her poetry was described by literary critics as a combination of realism and mysticism, possibly inspired by the absurdism of Daniil Kharms or the magic realism of Gabriel Márquez. She is a member of the Union of Russian Writers. Discography *''Batakakumba'', Arefieva and band The Ark, 2000 *''Anatomy'', Disk 1 and Disk 2, 2000 * Concert on radio, 2002 * Snow, 2011 * Theater, 2013 * Jan, 2016 * Clay, 2016 * Angel and girl, 2017 * Trybirds, 2017 * Yiao, 2018 * Hina, 2020 * ''Ko-Mix'', 2021 References External links* * Links to selected CDHer siteon bards.ru * Livejournal [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
