Polyxena Solovyova
Polyxena Solovyova | |
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Поликсена Соловьёва | |
Born | Polyxena Sergeyevna Solovyova 20 March 1867 Moscow, Russia |
Died | 16 August 1924 Moscow, Soviet Union | (aged 57)
Nationality | Russian |
Other names | Poliksena Soloviova, Poliksena Sergeevna Solov'eva |
Occupation(s) | writer, artist |
Years active | 1883–1924 |
Parent |
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Relatives | Vsevolod Solovyov (brother) Vladimir Solovyov (brother) |
Polyxena Sergeyevna Solovyova (
Early life
Polyxena Sergeyevna Solovyova was born on 20 March 1867
Career
Solovyova began publishing poetry at the age of 16
In 1906, Solovyova founded the publishing house and children's magazine Тропинка (Path), where she worked as an editor, illustrator, and writer along with Manaseina.
In addition to writing and translating, Solovyova published many drawings for the magazine. Her works represent a wide range of styles, from imitations of children's sketches to Art Nouveau graphics. She also solicited drawings from other artists to enhance the layout of the magazine.[13] Though she often followed in the Symbolist tradition, Solovyova also wrote in other genres, writing lullabies, religious legends, riddles and poems about nature and animals.[14] One of these was a stage drama, Svadba solntsa i vesny (The Wedding of the Sun and the Spring) written in 1907 in celebration of spring. Music for the piece was written by Mikhail Kuzmin.[15]
Solovyova and Manaseina began an affair,[10][2] and beginning 1909, they lived with Natalia's husband in the same house at #16 Voznesensky in Saint Petersburg.[2][8] In 1917, the three lived in voluntary exile in Crimea to avoid the violence of the Russian Revolution in the capital. While living in the Crimea, she continued to write, but her works only occasionally managed to make it into the newspapers and journals in Simferopol or Feodosia. She taught for the Feodosia Department of Education and gave lectures in Koktebel at the People's University.[2] To earn a living, she and Manaseina created and sold hats.[2] At the end of 1923, with the help of friends Korney Chukovsky and Voloshin, Solovyova and Manaseina were able to return to Moscow. Solovyova was ill and almost immediately underwent an operation, but her health continued to decline.[2]
Death and legacy
Solovyova died on 16 August 1924 in Moscow and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.[2][1] For many years, her contributions to Russian literature were lost[2] and there was no mention of her in the Soviet period. She was reintroduced as a figure of Russia's Silver Age in 1999, when Tatyana Nikitichna Zhukovskaya and Elena Albertovna Kallo compiled a book, Sub Rosa for Ellis Lak publishing in 1999.[16][17] The book included works of Solovyova, as well as Cherubina de Gabriak, Adelaida Gertsyk, and Sophia Parnok.[16] In the twenty-first century, revived scholarship on her work has taken place.[18][19]
Selected works
Poetry
- 1899: Стихотворения (Poems)[12]
- 1905: Иней (Frost)[12]
- 1909: Плакун-трава (Willow-Grass)[12]
- 1912: Тайная правда (Secret Truth)[12]
- 1913: Перекресток (Crossroads)[12]
- 1914: Вечер (Evening)[12]
- 1924: Последние стихи (Last Poems)[12]
Children's stories
- 1906: Yolka I osina (The Spruce and the Aspen)[11]
- 1907: Yolka (The Christmas Tree)[4]
- 1909: Priklyucheniya Alisy v strane chudes (translation of Alice in Wonderland)[9]
- 1913: Krasnoe yaichko (The Red Egg)[4]
References
Citations
- ^ a b c d e f g h World History Encyclopedia 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Бондарюкф 2018.
- ^ a b Соловьев 1921.
- ^ a b c d Hellman 2013, p. 240.
- ^ a b Левичев 2000.
- ^ a b c Дроздов 2015, p. 25.
- ^ Дроздов 2015, pp. 27–28.
- ^ a b c Дроздов 2015, p. 27.
- ^ a b c Hellman 2013, p. 271.
- ^ a b Karlinsky 1992, p. 169.
- ^ a b Hellman 2013, p. 270.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Снычёва 2015, p. 354.
- ^ a b Дроздов 2015, p. 26.
- ^ Hellman 2013, pp. 240–241.
- ^ Hellman 2013, p. 241.
- ^ a b Дроздов 2015, p. 31.
- ^ , Жуковская & Калло 1999.
- ^ Снычёва 2015, p. 354-360.
- ^ Дроздов 2015, pp. 24–33.
Bibliography
- Бондарюкф (Bondaryuk), Елена (Elena) (16 March 2018). "Дочь своего века, или Изменчивая Allegro" [The Daughter of Her Age, or the Volatile Allegro]. Крымский ТелеграфЪ (in Russian). No. 471. Simferopol, Crimea. Archived from the original on 4 October 2018. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
- Дроздов (Drozdov), Михаил Сергеевич (Mikhail Sergeyevich) (2015). "Поликсена Сергеевна Соловьева, сестры Герцык, Крым" [Polyxena S. Solovyova, the Misses Gertsyk, Crimea]. Крымский Архив (in Russian). 2 (17). Simferopol, Crimea: Крымский Центр Гуманитарных Исследований: 24–33. ISSN 2415-8283. Archived from the originalon 4 June 2020. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
- Hellman, Ben (2013). Fairy Tales and True Stories: The History of Russian Literature for Children and Young People (1574–2010). Leiden, The Netherlands: ISBN 978-90-04-25638-5.
- Karlinsky, Simon (1992). "Russia's Gay Literature and Culture: The Impact of the October Revolution". In Dynes, Wayne R.; Donaldson, Stephen (eds.). History of Homosexuality in Europe and America. Vol. V. Studies in Homosexuality. New York, New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. pp. 165–191. ISBN 978-0-8153-0550-7.
- Левичев (Levichev), Ф. (F.) (2000). "Поликсена Соловьева" [Polyxena Solovyova]. synnegoria.com (in Russian). Moscow: Мир Марины Цветаевой. Archived from the original on 18 November 2018. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
- Снычёва (Snycheva), Е. А. (2015). "Особенности поэтики сборникаполиксены соловьевой "Вечер"" [Features of the Poetic Collection of Polyxena Solovyova’s "Evening"] (PDF). Филология (in Russian) (1). Tver, Russia: Tver State University Herald: 354–360. ISSN 1994-3725. Archived from the original(PDF) on 4 June 2020. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
- Соловьев (Solovyov), C. M. (S. M.) (1921). "(forward) Биография Владимира Сергеевича Соловьева [Biography of Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov]". In Соловьев, В.С. (ed.). Владимир Соловьев. Стихотворения [Vladimir Solovyev: Poems] (in Russian) (7th ed.). Moscow: Типография Иванова при О.Н.О. Archived from the original on 11 December 2017.
- Жуковская (Zhukovskaya), Татьяна Никитична (Tatyana Nikitichna); Калло (Kallo), Елена Альбертовна (Elena Albertovna), eds. (1999). Sub Rosa (in Russian). Moscow: Эллис Лак. ISBN 978-5-88889-038-7.
- "Соловьева Поликсена Сергеевна" [Polyxena Sergeyevna Solovyova]. История.РФ (in Russian). Russia: Энциклопедия «Всемирная история». 2020. Archived from the original on 5 June 2020. Retrieved 5 June 2020.