Marija Lastauskienė

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Marija Lastauskienė b. Ivanauskaite (Polish Maria Lastowska, born Iwanowska; born May 15. Jul. / 27. May  1872 greg. In Šiauliai ; † 19th July 1957 in Kaunas ) was a Lithuanian - Russian writer .

Life

Marija's father Nikodem Iwanowski was a painter and writer from the Polish - Lithuanian nobility . She spent her youth on the family farm in Paragiai ( Akmenė district ) with Polish as her mother tongue. She received no formal training and educated herself by reading novels by Polish authors . At the age of 16 she went to Warsaw and worked as a seamstress in her aunt's shop. She started writing when she was 17. Her first story Bez steru (Without Rudder) appeared in a Warsaw newspaper.

In 1903 Marija married the Belarusian literary critic and politician Wazlaw Lastowski (Lithuanian Vaclovas Lastauskis). After stays in St. Petersburg and Riga and after divorce , Marija came to Vilnius in 1907 to see her older sister Sofija , who encouraged her to write more. Both sisters wrote and published under the common pseudonym Lazdynų Pelėda ( hazel owl ) since 1905 , with Sofija Marijas editing Polish texts and translating them into Lithuanian. Therefore it is not always clear which works are to be assigned to which sister. The public did not notice that two people were hiding behind Lazdynų Pelėda , especially since the sisters did not differ in subject matter or style of writing.

During the First World War the sisters returned to the family farm in Paragiai. After the death of her sister Sofija in 1926, Marija wrote Lithuanian texts which her daughter corrected. Her first published works under her name were the short story Auka (Sacrifice, 1907-1908) and the novel Šviesa ir šešėliai (Light and Shadow, 1925-1926). Under the influence of Polish literature , her works reflect soulful idealism and melancholy on the one hand and realism on the other. She portrayed townspeople and factory workers more often than villagers and farmers. In 1938 Marija settled in Kaunas .

In 1966 a museum in memory of the two sisters was set up on the family farm in Paragiai. In 1993 a memorial was erected for the two sisters in Vilnius.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Encyclopedia Lituanica (Volume III): Lastauskienė, Marija.
  2. ↑ a b c Autorius: Lazdynų Pelėda (accessed December 16, 2016).
  3. ↑ Nikodemas Erazmas Ivanauskas (accessed December 16, 2016).
  4. ↑ a b c Antanas Giedrius: Dar apie devynbrolės interpretaciją . In: Aidai . No. 7 , 1957, pp. 324 .
  5. ↑ Lazdynų Pelėdos muziejus-ekspozicija (accessed December 16, 2016).
personal data
SURNAME Lastauskienė, Marija
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lastowska, Maria (Polish); Lazdynų Pelėda (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Šiauliai
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1957
Place of death Kaunas