Nadezhda Stepanovna Sokhanskaia (russian: Наде́жда Степа́новна Соханская, 1 March 1823 – 15 December 1884) was a
Russian short story writer and
autobiographer
An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written account of one's own life.
It is a form of biography.
Definition
The word "autobiography" was first used deprecatingly by William Taylor in 1797 in the English peri ...
who wrote about the Ukraine, using the pen name Kokhanovskaya (Кохановская).
[Tanakova, T.I]
Надежда Степановна Соханская
at the Russian Writers. Biobibliographical Dictionary // "Русские писатели". Биобиблиографический словарь. Том 1. А--Л. Под редакцией П. А. Николаева. М., "Просвещение", 1990
at the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
The ''Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopaedic Dictionary'' (Russian: Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона, abbr. ЭСБЕ, tr. ; 35 volumes, small; 86 volumes, large) is a comprehensive multi-volume ...
Life
Sokhanskaia was born in
Kursk Governorate in 1823. Her father was an Army captain and he died when she was a small child. She attended a boarding school from the age of eleven to seventeen where she was a prize winning student. When she returned home she found that her family were destitute. She failed to find work befitting her ambitions and it was only religion that gave her hope.
Sokhanskaia was still reading and she wrote short stories that she submitted. She sent copies to the literary critic
Pyotr Pletnyov who had edited the journal ''
The Contemporary
''Sovremennik'' ( rus, «Современник», p=səvrʲɪˈmʲenʲːɪk, a=Ru-современник.ogg, "The Contemporary") was a Russian literary, social and political magazine, published in Saint Petersburg in 1836–1866. It came out f ...
''. He advised her to write about her own life. This improved her style and during the 1850s she published many stories about local life.
These stories were set in the area where she lived in
Ukraine that included the local culture and its history.
[Sokhanskaia, Nadezhda (1823–1884)]
"Sokhanskaia, Nadezhda (1823–1884)", Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages She continued to write throughout her life and her ''Autobiography'' was published in 1896 after her death
in
Kharkov Governorate in 1884.
References
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1823 births
1884 deaths
People from Kursk Oblast
People from Fatezhsky Uyezd
Autobiographers
Women autobiographers
19th-century writers from the Russian Empire
19th-century women writers from the Russian Empire
19th-century short story writers from the Russian Empire