Anastassija Alexejewna Werbizkaya

Anastassija Verbitskaya (1898)

Anastasiya Verbitskaya , born Sjablowa , ( Russian Анастасия Алексеевна Вербицкая or Зяблова , scientific. Transliteration Anastasija Alekseevna Verbickaja or Zjablova ; February * 10 ^{. Jul} / 22. February 1861 ^greg. In Voronezh ; † 16th January 1928 in Moscow ) was a Russian writer, playwright and memoirist. She is considered a representative of late Russian realism .

Life

Anastassija Werbizkaja was the daughter of the hereditary nobleman Colonel AA Syablow. On the maternal side, she was related to the great actor PS Motschalow. From 1870 to 1877 she attended the Elisabeth boarding school in Voronezh . Before her studies, which she graduated from the Moscow Conservatory from 1879 to 1881 , she worked as a governess . During her studies she worked as a music teacher and choir director. In 1882 Verbickaya married the surveyor AV Werbizki. In the following years she worked as a proofreader and journalist for the newspapers Russki Kurer and Schisn΄ and wrote political newsletters. In 1890 her first literary work Pervye lastočki appeared . In 1894, Werbitskaya began her steady literary career. From 1899 she began to publish her works as individual books, which had a very great success on the market (a total of 25 works, about 500,000 copies). She sympathized with the 1905 Russian Revolution and even made her apartment available for meetings of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party . In 1908 and 1911 she published her two-volume autobiography. From 1909 to 1913 she wrote her most famous novel, Klyuchi stschastja . Each of the six volumes was sold more than 40,000 times. The writer herself explained the idea of this novel something like this: "Women, do not put love at the center of your life, so that you do not end up bankrupt when love leaves you." In 1917 her career ended.

After the October Revolution - in the early 1920s - one saw symbols of the tabloid kitsch with pornographic elements in their pre-revolutionary works . In 1924 her books were finally banned. In the 1920s she wrote under various stage names for children. In 1926, Anatoli Wassiljewitsch Lunacharsky and Olminsky campaigned for the protection of their works. They saw in the Werbitskaya a limited but progressive writer for her time. The literary works are a great example of popular literature, in which simplified progressive ideas are combined with characteristics of tabloid literature. She was a “market-wise” author who pioneered the Russian bestseller and especially the best-selling Russian women's novel. It won its readership through the charisma of its artist heroines and their intense emotional and erotic experiences.

Works

Novels

1898: Вавочка
1899: Освободилась
1903: История одной жизни
1908: Ключи счастья
1914–1916: Иво любви

Plays

1895: Миражи
1897: Семейство Волгиных

Novellas

1906: Светает
1907: Крыля взмахнули

literature

AM Gracheyova: Verbickaya . In: Russkie pisateli 1800-1917 . Moscow 1999
Anastasija Alekseevna Werbizkaja: Avtobiografičeskij očerk . In: Sbornik na pomošč 'učaščimsja zenščinam . Moscow 1905, pp. 84-91
Anastasija A. Verbickaja: Moemu čitatelju . Avtobiografičeskie očerki s dvumja portretami. Moscow 1908
Ilja M. Wassilewski (Ne-Bukwa): Avtobiografija Verbickoj . In: ders .: Geroinja našego vremeni . Pamflet, Petrograd 1916, pp. 55-59

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personal data
SURNAME	Werbizkaja, Anastassija Alexejewna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Вербицкая, Анастасия Алексеевна
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian writer, playwright and memoirist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 22, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH	Voronezh
DATE OF DEATH	January 16, 1928
Place of death	Moscow