Varvara Nikolaevna Repnina-Volkonskaya

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Varvara Repnina-Volkonskaya; Glafira Psjol 1839, Taras Shevchenko National Museum , Kiev

Varvara Nikolaevna Repnina-Volkonskaya ( Russian Варвара Николаевна Репнина-Волконская * July 19 . Jul / 31 July  1808 greg. In Moscow , Russian Empire , † November 27 . Jul / 9. December  1891 . Greg ibid) was a Russian Writer and memoir writer.

Life

Varvara Nikolaevna Repnina-Volkonskaya came as a daughter of Prince Nikolai Grigorievich Repnin-Volkonsky , general of the cavalry of the Russian army , and Varvara Alexejewna Repnina-Volkonskaya ( Варвара Алексеевна Репнина-Волконская ; 1778-1864), the granddaughter of Kirill Grigorievich Razumovsky , the last Hetman of the Zaporozhian Cossacks in Moscow. She was the niece of the Decembrist Prince Sergei Grigoryevich Volkonsky .

Varvara spent her early childhood with her parents in Prague and Vienna. In September 1816 her father became governor general of Little Russia and the family moved to Poltava, Ukraine . There, Varvara studied at the Institute of Noble Virgins , participated in various charity events and attended the theater. So she came into contact with Mikhail Shchepkin and Ivan Kotlyarevsky and got to know Vasily Kapnist , Petro Hulak-Artemowskyj and Nikolai Zertelev . At the age of 21, she fell in love with Leo Baratynski (1805-1858), the brother of the poet Yevgeny Baratynski , but her parents disagreed with this and so the relationship was dissolved. In 1836 her father retired, went abroad with his family, and for the following years they lived in Dresden, Rome and Florence. In Baden-Baden , Wawara met Nikolai Gogol in 1842 , with whom she corresponded and later wrote his memoirs. The family returned to the Russian Empire in the same year and settled in Jahotyn in the Poltava Governorate . The siblings Alexandra, Tatjana and Glafira Psjol ( Глафира Ивановна Псёл ; 1823–1886) also lived in Wawara's family after their parents died.

Portrait of Repnina-Volkonskaya; Taras Shevchenko , 1840s

In July 1843, the aristocratic marshal of the Poltava governorate and son of Vasily Kapnist, Alexei Kapnist ( Алексей Васильевич Капнист ; 1796–1867) brought Taras Shevchenko to Jahotyn to paint a picture. Shevchenko was warmly welcomed by the whole family and Varvara in particular was particularly fond of his art and person. Shevchenko dedicated his Russian poem "Trisna" ( Тризна , in German: The Funeral Feast ) to her and painted two portraits of her. She promoted his career as an artist and helped him to teach as a drawing teacher at St. Vladimir University . After Shevchenko was in exile, she tried to make things easier for him, sent him books and corresponded with him until the head of the third department of the court chancellery, Count Alexei Orlov, forbade her to do so in 1850. There are 8 known letters from Shevchenko to her and 16 letters from her to Shevchenko. In the early 1850s, the unmarried princess's daughter moved from Odessa , where she lived in the meantime, to Moscow, where she spent the rest of her life and died at the age of 83.

Many of her articles, such as "The biography of Shevchenko", "From the memoirs of Gogol" and "Memories of the bombing of Odessa in 1854" were published in the journal "Russian Archives". She describes her relationship with Shevchenko in an early, unfinished novel "Devochka" (A Girl), in which he is a central figure; Excerpts from the novel were published in 1916. Mychajlo Vosnjak's work on Shevchenko and Repnina was published in Lemberg in 1925 .

Web links

Commons : Varvara Nikolajewna Repnina-Volkonskaya  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Picture in the art catalog
  2. ↑ entry to Varvara Nikolaevna Repnina-Volkonskaya in Brockhaus and Efron ; accessed on August 3, 2018 (Russian)
  3. ↑ a b c d e biography of Varwara Repnina-Volkonskaya on histpol.narod.ru ; accessed on August 3, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ Article on Varwara Repnina and Taras Shevchenko in kulupa.livejournal.com ; accessed on August 3, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  5. ↑ Varwara Repnina on uahistory.com ; accessed August 3, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  6. ↑ a b c Entry on Varwara Repnina-Wolkonskaja in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on August 3, 2018
  7. ↑ entry to Varvara Repnina-Volkonskaya in the Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine ; accessed on August 3, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  8. ↑ entry to varvara Repnina-Wolkonskaja in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on August 3, 2018 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Repnina-Volkonskaya, Varvara Nikolajewna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Репнина-Волконская, Варвара Николаевна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian writer and memoir writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1891
Place of death Moscow , Russian Empire