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 Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

, the daughter of the writer Maria Kamenskaia and the granddaughter of the artist

Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy Count Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy (russian: Фёдор Петрович Толстой; 21 February 1783 – 25 April 1873) was a Russian artist who served as Vice-President of the Imperial Academy of Arts for forty years (1828–1868). His wo ...

. She was educated at home, at a state boarding school and at the

Catherine Institute The Smolny Institute of Noble Maidens of Saint Petersburg (Russian: Смольный институт благородных девиц Санкт-Петербурга) was the first women's educational institution in Russia that laid the foundatio ...

in Saint Petersburg, where she started writing verse. She married twice and had four children. She worked for

Lev Tolstoy Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; russian: link=no, Лев Николаевич Толстой,In Tolstoy's day, his name was written as in pre-refor ...

'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 to encourage peasants to turn to revolutionary activity. The first, illegal printing was by the People's Will publishers in Saint Petersburg; there were also Paris and Geneva editions in the 1890s. The name A. K. Tolstoy appeared on some of these printings. In later life she advocated

Tolstoyan The Tolstoyan movement is a social movement based on the philosophical and religious views of Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910). Tolstoy's views were formed by rigorous study of the ministry of Jesus, particularly the Sermon on the Mo ...

ideas, supporting

non-violence Nonviolence is the personal practice of not causing harm to others under any condition. It may come from the belief that hurting people, animals and/or the environment is unnecessary to achieve an outcome and it may refer to a general philosoph ...

and

vegetarianism Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, insects, and the flesh of any other animal). It may also include abstaining from eating all by-products of animal slaughter. Vegetarianism may ...

. She was a close friend and correspondent with the publisher

Vladimir Chertkov Vladimir Grigoryevich Chertkov (russian: Влади́мир Григо́рьевич Чертко́в; also transliterated as Chertkoff, Tchertkoff, or Tschertkow ( – November 9, 1936) was the editor of the works of Leo Tolstoy, and one of the mo ...

, a disciple of Tolstoy. In her letters she enthuses on the advantages of a vegetarian lifestyle. Barykova died at

Rostov on Don Rostov-on-Don ( rus, Ростов-на-Дону, r=Rostov-na-Donu, p=rɐˈstof nə dɐˈnu) is a port city and the administrative centre of Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District of Russia. It lies in the southeastern part of the East ...

on 31 May 1893.

Works

* Стихотворенія y Muse 1878 * (anon.) ''Сказка про то как царь Ахреян ходил Богу жаловаться'' he Tale of How King Ahreyan Went to Complain to God 1883. * Votary of Aesthetics 1884.

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