Sofija Pšibiliauskienė

Sofija Pšibiliauskienė b. Ivanauskaite (. Polish Zofia Przybylewska, born Iwanowska; born September 16 ^{. Jul} / 28. September  1867 ^greg. In Paragiai, akmenė district municipality ; † 15. March 1926 ibid) was a Lithuanian - Russian writer .

Life

Sofija's father Nikodem Iwanowski was a painter and writer from the Polish - Lithuanian nobility . She received no formal training and educated herself by reading soulful novels by Polish authors . In 1891 she married the neighboring landowner Rapolas Pšibiliauskas (Polish: Rafał Przybylewski), but they were not happy. Encouraged by Povilas Višinskis , she began writing for various Lithuanian magazines in 1898, in particular for the monthly magazines Vargas (The Bell) and Ūkininkas (The Peasant). The newspapers were banned in the Russian Empire because of their Latin script , so they were first printed by Martynas Jankus in Prussian Ragnit , then in Tilsit and finally in Bittehnen and smuggled across the border into Russia.

In 1903 Sofija separated from her husband and moved to Vilnius with her two young children . She lived from doing odd jobs as a saleswoman in a bookstore, seamstress and pharmacy assistant on the edge of poverty. She now used her time to do more writing. In her short stories she described how landless peasants were exploited and degraded by lazy selfish landowners. The main characters suffered from misfortune, social injustice and their own mistakes. Your story Klaida (The Error, 1908) described the time before the Russian Revolution in 1905 without going into the underlying causes of the revolution.

In 1907 Sofija's sister Marija Lastauskienė also came to Vilnius. Both sisters wrote and published under the common pseudonym Lazdynų Pelėda ( hazel - owl ) since 1905 , with Sofija Marijas translating Polish texts 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.

In 1914 Sofija moved to Kaunas , where she fell ill with tuberculosis . She then returned to her parents' home in Paragiai.

In 1966 a museum was set up in Sofija's house in Paragiai in memory of the two sisters. In 1993 a memorial was erected for the two sisters in Vilnius.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Autorius: Lazdynų Pelėda (accessed December 16, 2016).
2. ↑ Nikodemas Erazmas Ivanauskas (accessed December 16, 2016).
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Encyclopedia Lituanica (Volume IV): Pšibiliauskienė, Sofija.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Encyclopedia Lituanica (Volume III): Lastauskienė, Marija.
5. ↑ Antanas Giedrius: Dar apie devynbrolės interpretaciją . In: Aidai . No. 7 , 1957, pp. 324 .
6. ↑ Lazdynų Pelėdos muziejus-ekspozicija (accessed December 16, 2016).