Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal
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Lydia Dmitrievna Zinovieva-Annibal (1866–1907) was a Russia
n prose writer and dramatist.
Zinovieva-Annibal was associated with the Silver Age of Russian Poetry
. She hosted a literary salon, 'The Tower', with her husband, the poet Viacheslav Ivanov. Her short novel Tridsat'-tri uroda (Thirty-Three Abominations) was one of the few works of its day to openly discuss lesbianism.
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n prose writer and dramatist.
Zinovieva-Annibal was associated with the Silver Age of Russian Poetry
Silver Age of Russian Poetry
Silver Age is a term traditionally applied by Russian philologists to the first two decades of the 20th century. It was an exceptionally creative period in the history of Russian poetry, on par with the Golden Age a century earlier...
. She hosted a literary salon, 'The Tower', with her husband, the poet Viacheslav Ivanov. Her short novel Tridsat'-tri uroda (Thirty-Three Abominations) was one of the few works of its day to openly discuss lesbianism.
Works
- Torches (1903)
- Rings (1904)
- Thirty-Three Abominations (1907) short novel. Transl. by S. D. Cioran in The Silver Age of Russian Culture.
- The Tragic Menagerie (1907) stories.
- No!' (1918)
Further reading
- Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature
- P. Davidson, The Poetic Imagination of Viacheslav Ivanov