Varvara Andreevskaya Pavlova (nee. Orlova; 1848 - after 1915, St. Petersburg ) is a Russian children's writer.
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| Occupation | prose writer , translator |
| Direction | books for children reading |
| Language of Works | Russian |
| Works on the site Lib.ru | |
Content
Biography
She was born in the family of an officer, she read a lot from childhood, she knew literature well, was fond of Russian history.
Creativity
From 1884 she began to write small historical stories, publishing them in the magazine “Young Russia” . The first published story is The Fall of Menshikov.
From 1889 her books for children began to appear, many reprinted many times: “Nanny Tales” (1889), “Dawn” (1890), “Bells” (1890), “Children's World” (1890), etc.
Children's historical books were especially popular, where events from Russian history were retold in simple clear language: “The Tradition of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich” (1901), “Vladimir the Red Sun” (1901), “Yermak” (1901), etc. [1] .
In the 1900 encyclopedia of V. P. Andreevskaya it is said:
Beautifully published and abundantly supplied with illustrations books of St. Andrew’s were successful among children ... although they didn’t nominate Andreevskaya from the host of children's medium-sized female writers who write smoothly, “moralizing and decorously” [2] .
However, her story “The Battle of Sinop” was included by Leo Tolstoy in the collection “Stories about the Sevastopol Defense”.
Varvara Andreevskaya translated “Don Quixote” by M. Cervantes and “William Tell” by F. Schiller into Russian - both 1896.
Notes
- ↑ Belodubrovsky E. B. Andreevskaya Varvara Pavlovna // Russian writers. 1800-1917. Biographical dictionary. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1989. - T. 1 . - p . 71 .
- ↑ Great Encyclopedia / Ed. S.N. Yuzhakov and P.N. Milyukova. - Leipzig; Vein; SPb., 1900. - T. 1. - p. 624.
Works
- Tell me something and show pictures (2nd ed., SPb., 1886, 1893)
- Hut under the mountain. - SPb., 1887
- Olina's plans. - SPb., 1888
- In good time. - SPb., 1888
- Friend. - SPb., 2nd ed., 1889 and 1893
- Nanny tales. - SPb., 1889
- Bells. - SPb., 1890
- Dawn. - SPb., 1890
- Children's world. - SPb., 1890
- Instead of a toy. - SPb., 1890
- Darling: five stories for middle-aged children. - SPb., 1891
- Children's joy. - SPb., 1892
- Joy and sorrow. - SPb., 1896
- Teenagers. - SPb., 1897
- Scrapbook dolls. - SPb., 1898
- Girls about girls. - SPb., 1902
- Boys about boys. - SPb., 1904
- Grandpa's stories about the hoary old days. - M .: AST, 2011.
Literature
- Lemke M. What to read for children. SPb., 1910. P. 29