Studenskaya, Evgenia Mikhailovna

Evgenia Shershevskaya was born in the family of a real state adviser Mikhail Markovich Shershevsky (1846-1910), an honorary life physician of the court of His Imperial Majesty; mother - Olga Alekseevna Shershevskaya, nee. Pushkaryov (d. 1899), daughter of a physician, member and secretary of the Society of Russian Doctors in St. Petersburg, real state adviser to Alexei Nazarovich Pushkaryov.

Successfully graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of St. Petersburg University . During her studies, she began to translate foreign poetry - from German, English, Italian, Danish, Swedish. The first publication was in 1894 in the Bulletin of Foreign Literature. Since 1897, she actively collaborated with the New Journal of Foreign Literature, Art, and Science, where she published poetic translations and critical studies of foreign writers. She translated such poets as Gustav Fröding , Holger Drahman , Antonio Fogazzaro , Lorenzo Stekketi , Enrico Pantsacci , Rudyard Kipling . It was published under the maiden name (also under the cryptonyms “E. M.” and “E. M. Sh.”), From December 1901 - under the name of her husband: Studenskaya.

In 1904, translated from the German magazine " Jugend " a poem by Rudolf Greinz about the exploit of the cruiser " Varyag ". Soon the musician of the 12th Astrakhan Grenadier Regiment A. Turishchev wrote a march song according to the text of its translation. The song became popular in Russia .

In 1904, the student’s husband died, in August of the same year her latest publication appeared. She married F.A. Brown, a professor at the Faculty of History and Philology of St. Petersburg University. Even in her first marriage, caring for a sick husband, she contracted tuberculosis , from which she died.

• Article by G. Tarakanovsky about E. Studenskaya
• Biography of E. M. Studenskaya on the website “Century of Translation”