“I Need Loved Ones, the Closest”: To the Biography of N.D. Khvoshchinskaya
The article considers the biography of N.D. Khvoshchinskaya (V. Krestovsky is a pseudonym) in connection with her literary work. Having a reputation as the best Russian writer, Khvoshchinskaya was a literary centenarian, but in recent years her creative activity has decreased. The materials reviewed...
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| description | The article considers the biography of N.D. Khvoshchinskaya (V. Krestovsky is a pseudonym) in connection with her literary work. Having a reputation as the best Russian writer, Khvoshchinskaya was a literary centenarian, but in recent years her creative activity has decreased. The materials reviewed suggest that the writer’s living conditions, and most importantly, the environment, significantly influenced the intensity of her literary work. The most fruitful periods turned out to be when there was a person nearby who was close not only emotionally and intellectually, but also in everyday terms, a person with whom one could simply talk “about trifles.” In the 1850s and the first half of the 1860s, it was the sister of S.D. Khvoshchinskaya, a writer who published under the pseudonym I. Vesenyev. It was these years that became the most intense and vivid in the work of N. Khvoshchinskaya. The second period was in the 1870s when the writer found a loved one in her early deceased pupil. The article presents a significant body of archival documents of an official and personal nature, which recreate the everyday circumstances of Khvoshchinskaya in different years and make it possible to understand why she left her home in Ryazan at an advanced age and why her younger sister P.D. Khvoshchinskaya (writer S. Zimarova) did not become a close person to her. The appendix contains N. Khvoshchinskaya’s early poems dedicated to her three sisters Lyubov, Sofia, and Praskovya, as well as testamentary dispositions. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d231a593c31040e892d6d8676ed554b12025-08-20T03:15:36ZengRussian Academy of Sciences. A.M. Gorky Institute of World LiteratureЛитературный факт2541-82972542-24212025-06-0123613017110.22455/2541-8297-2025-36-130-171“I Need Loved Ones, the Closest”: To the Biography of N.D. KhvoshchinskayaEvgeniya N. Stroganova0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0288-4287D.I. Mendeleev and A.A. Blok State Memorial Museum-ReserveThe article considers the biography of N.D. Khvoshchinskaya (V. Krestovsky is a pseudonym) in connection with her literary work. Having a reputation as the best Russian writer, Khvoshchinskaya was a literary centenarian, but in recent years her creative activity has decreased. The materials reviewed suggest that the writer’s living conditions, and most importantly, the environment, significantly influenced the intensity of her literary work. The most fruitful periods turned out to be when there was a person nearby who was close not only emotionally and intellectually, but also in everyday terms, a person with whom one could simply talk “about trifles.” In the 1850s and the first half of the 1860s, it was the sister of S.D. Khvoshchinskaya, a writer who published under the pseudonym I. Vesenyev. It was these years that became the most intense and vivid in the work of N. Khvoshchinskaya. The second period was in the 1870s when the writer found a loved one in her early deceased pupil. The article presents a significant body of archival documents of an official and personal nature, which recreate the everyday circumstances of Khvoshchinskaya in different years and make it possible to understand why she left her home in Ryazan at an advanced age and why her younger sister P.D. Khvoshchinskaya (writer S. Zimarova) did not become a close person to her. The appendix contains N. Khvoshchinskaya’s early poems dedicated to her three sisters Lyubov, Sofia, and Praskovya, as well as testamentary dispositions.https://litfact.ru/images/2025-36/6_Stroganova.pdfn.d. khvoshchinskayacreative biographyeveryday circumstancessistersarchival documentsdocumentary materials |
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