Ekaterina Alexejewna Avdejewa

Cover of the book "Notes and comments on Siberia. With the application of ancient Russian songs."

Jekaterina Alexejewna Awdejewa , born Ekaterina Alexejewna Polewaja ( Russian Екатерина Алексеевна Авдеева урождённая Полевая * August 5 ^jul. / 16th August  1788 ^greg. In Kursk , † July 21 ^jul. / 2. August  1865 ^greg. In Tartu ) was a Russian writer .

Life

Yekaterina Alexejewna was the daughter of a Kursk merchant and older sister of Nikolai Alexejewitsch Polewoi and Xenophon Alexejewitsch Polewoi . She grew up in Irkutsk and did not enjoy a systematic education. At the age of 14 she married the Irkutsk merchant Pyotr Petrovich Avdejew, with whom she first lived for a year in her father-in-law's house in Kjachta . After that, the couple lived in Irkutsk and traveled a lot in Siberia . Five children were born.

In 1815 Ekaterina widowed Avdejewa. In 1820 she sold the house in Irkutsk and settled in Kursk with her children . In 1830, when all the children had left the house, she went to Odessa and later to Moscow . For some time she lived in Dorpat , where her brother-in-law was a university professor. In 1841 she settled in St. Petersburg , and from 1863 she struggled with running a model farm on leased land near Novgorod . From 1861 she received a pension from the society to support needy writers and scientists until her death.

Avdejeva began to write and publish late. Her first book, Notes and Notes on Siberia, with an appendix of old Russian songs , was published in Moscow in 1837 with a foreword by her youngest brother Xenophon Polewoi. The book was translated into Czech , German and English , and Alexander Nikolayevich Pypin considered it to be one of the first particularly ethnographic books in Russia. Her book Notes on the Old and New Russian Everyday Life with the essays published in the Patriotic Notes and various compilations also showed an ethnographic character and was published in St. Petersburg in 1842 with a foreword by her younger brother Nikolai Polewoi .

Avdeeva was the author of popular books:

• Handbook of the Russian Housewife , published in 1842 with many new editions until 1877,
• Pocket cookbook , published in 1842 with the ninth edition in 1871,
• General budget book - with an appendix on medicines and secretarial work .

The commercial success of these and similar books led to the production of analog books under abuse of their name.

Avdejewa published the Russian songbook or collection of the best and most popular songs, romances , vaudevilles and couplets by well-known writers in 1848 . Her fictional stories Russian sagas, the soldier's wife (1847) and A terrible thunderstorm (1848) appeared in the Patriotic Notes .

Avdejewa published Russian fairy tales for children in 1844 , told by the nanny Avdotja Stepanovna Tscherepjejewa (8th edition 1881) with seven Russian folk tales, which soon became firmly established in the repertoire of children's early reading. Their fairy tales were included in the Russian folk tales of Alexander Nikolayevich Afanassiev , and Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp called them the first original records from the mouth of the people.

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• MD Sergejew: Ekaterina Alexejewna Avdejewa-Polewaja . In: Records of Irkutsk Citizens (in the series of literary monuments of Siberia ). Ostsibirischer Buchverlag 1990, pp. 507-512 (Russian).
• OA Goroschtschenowa: The Siberian writer EA Avdejewa-Polewaja . In: Questions of History No. 3 (2015), pp. 153–156 (Russian).
• Russian Biographical Lexicon in 25 volumes (1896–1918): Avdejewa, Jekaterina Alexejewna (Russian, accessed October 21, 2015).
• Irkutsk Humanities Center - Polewoi Family Library : The Polewois (Russian, accessed October 21, 2015)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rodovid: Pyotr Petrovich Avdejew (Russian, accessed October 21, 2015)