Avdotya Panaeva
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Avdotya Yakovlevna Panaeva , née Bryanskaya, ( – ), was a Russian novelist, short story writer, memoirist and literary salon
holder. She published much of her work under the pseudonym V. Stanitsky.
in 1837. She was also the common-law
wife of Nikolay Nekrasov. She collaborated with both writers and published many novels and stories of her own. She and Nekrasov published two novels together: Three Parts of the World (1848–49) and The Dead Lake (1851). Her fiction deals with the social problems of the times, and particularly with the emancipation of women, as in her novel A Woman's Lot (1862).
After Panaev and Nekrasov took over the journal Sovremennik
, Panaeva frequently contributed fiction and articles. During the last illness of the Sovremennik critic Nikolay Dobrolyubov, Panaeva acted as his nurse and as a mother figure to his younger brothers.
In 1845 Fyodor Dostoyevsky read his first novel Poor Folk
to a literary gathering organized by Panaeva and Ivan Panaev. Dostoyevsky became a frequent visitor to the important literary salon run by Panaeva. Dostoyevsky stopped attending the salon after quarreling with Ivan Turgenev
, a fellow visitor.
Other salon visitors included Leo Tolstoy
, Ivan Goncharov
, Alexander Herzen
, Vissarion Belinsky
and Nikolai Chernyshevsky
.
Her memoirs, Memories (1889), while not always factually acurate, contain interesting portraits of her contemporaries, and are an important source of information on the Russian literary scene of the 1840s and 1850s.
Panaeva had one daughter, Yevdokia Nagrodskaya (1866–1930), by her second husband Apollon Golovachev. Yevdokia was also a writer.
Salon (gathering)
A salon is a gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring host, held partly to amuse one another and partly to refine taste and increase their knowledge of the participants through conversation. These gatherings often consciously followed Horace's definition of the aims of poetry, "either to...
holder. She published much of her work under the pseudonym V. Stanitsky.
Biography
Panaeva married the writer Ivan PanaevIvan Panaev
Ivan Ivanovich Panaev was a Russian writer, literary critic, journalist and magazine publisher.-Early life:Panaev was born into a gentry family in St Petersburg. He graduated from the Boarding School for the Nobility at Saint Petersburg State University in 1830. He began publishing his works in 1834...
in 1837. She was also the common-law
Common-law marriage
Common-law marriage, sometimes called sui juris marriage, informal marriage or marriage by habit and repute, is a form of interpersonal status that is legally recognized in limited jurisdictions as a marriage even though no legally recognized marriage ceremony is performed or civil marriage...
wife of Nikolay Nekrasov. She collaborated with both writers and published many novels and stories of her own. She and Nekrasov published two novels together: Three Parts of the World (1848–49) and The Dead Lake (1851). Her fiction deals with the social problems of the times, and particularly with the emancipation of women, as in her novel A Woman's Lot (1862).
After Panaev and Nekrasov took over the journal Sovremennik
Sovremennik
Sovremennik was a Russian literary, social and political magazine, published in St. Petersburg in 1836-1866. It came out four times a year in 1836-1843 and once a month after that...
, Panaeva frequently contributed fiction and articles. During the last illness of the Sovremennik critic Nikolay Dobrolyubov, Panaeva acted as his nurse and as a mother figure to his younger brothers.
In 1845 Fyodor Dostoyevsky read his first novel Poor Folk
Poor Folk
Poor Folk , sometimes translated as Poor People, is the first novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, which he wrote over the span of nine months when he was 25 years old. It was originally published on January 15, 1846 in the almanac St...
to a literary gathering organized by Panaeva and Ivan Panaev. Dostoyevsky became a frequent visitor to the important literary salon run by Panaeva. Dostoyevsky stopped attending the salon after quarreling with Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His first major publication, a short story collection entitled A Sportsman's Sketches, is a milestone of Russian Realism, and his novel Fathers and Sons is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century...
, a fellow visitor.
Other salon visitors included Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist...
, Ivan Goncharov
Ivan Goncharov
Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov was a Russian novelist best known as the author of Oblomov .- Biography :Ivan Goncharov was born in Simbirsk ; his father was a wealthy grain merchant and respected official who was elected mayor of Simbirsk several times...
, Alexander Herzen
Alexander Herzen
Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen was a Russian pro-Western writer and thinker known as the "father of Russian socialism", and one of the main fathers of agrarian populism...
, Vissarion Belinsky
Vissarion Belinsky
Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky was a Russian literary critic of Westernizing tendency. He was an associate of Alexander Herzen, Mikhail Bakunin , and other critical intellectuals...
and Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky was a Russian revolutionary democrat, materialist philosopher, critic, and socialist...
.
Her memoirs, Memories (1889), while not always factually acurate, contain interesting portraits of her contemporaries, and are an important source of information on the Russian literary scene of the 1840s and 1850s.
Panaeva had one daughter, Yevdokia Nagrodskaya (1866–1930), by her second husband Apollon Golovachev. Yevdokia was also a writer.