Ekaterina Mikhailovna Lopatina ( 1865 - 1935 ) - Russian writer.
| Ekaterina Mikhailovna Lopatina | |
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| Place of Birth | Moscow Russian empire |
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| Occupation | a writer |
| Father | Mikhail Nikolaevich Lopatin |
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Biography
Born on April 8, 1865 in the family of a famous lawyer M.N. Lopatin . Sister of the philosopher and psychologist L. M. Lopatin . Received home education. Since childhood, I have been familiar with many prominent people of that time, gathering on the "Lopatin environment." In the early 1880s, she attended the Moscow Higher Women's Courses of Guerrier and in 1883 passed the exam for the title of home teacher.
In 1891, in the journal Russian Thought , her first literary work appeared - Memoirs of S. A. Yuriev . She wrote under pseudonyms: Yeltsova, K. and L. [1] . Katerina Yeltsova ’s debut took place in the New Word magazine , where in 1896-1897 her novel “In a strange nest” was published, which was positively noted by critics. A year later, the magazine "Russian Thought" published her story "Bonded Souls." In the editorial office of the magazine "New Word", in January 1897, she met with I. A. Bunin ; in November of that year, they began to meet frequently: in her diary she wrote: “I was stupidly happy and excited <...> I really want to see Bunin.” Bunin lived nearby at that time, in Khrushchevsky Lane , in the furnished rooms of Gunst . With each meeting, Bunin became more interested in her, but Lopatin did not reciprocate. In early March, he made her an offer, which Ekaterina Mikhailovna resolutely rejected. According to him, she burst out laughing: “But how is it to get married ... Why, it can only be done if one can put one’s head on the block”. Bunin “clearly remembered” this phrase even decades later. However, in the summer, Bunin, in order to be near Lopatina, rented a small apartment for two with his acquaintance Innokenty Mikhailovich Mikheev near the Lopatins' dacha in Tsaritsyno , at the dacha of the merchant Erokhov . Here, in Tsaritsyno, on June 1, another explanation took place: June 16, Bunin wrote in a letter: “How did you never feel my love and your heart did not tremble? And there is no hope! ” [2] .
E. M. Lopatina was in love with the psychiatrist Tokarsky . In 1899, after breaking up with him, she became seriously ill. After the illness, Lopatina ceased to engage in literary activity, giving herself up to charity work: she was a trustee of the Khamovnichesky 1st Women's School , the Nikolskaya community; during the first world war - the elder sister of a psychiatric hospital.
After 1917 she emigrated to France. Gave lessons, occasionally published in the newspaper "Latest News" and in the journal "Modern Notes" in Paris; continued charity work - Z. N. Gippius wrote: “there is a beggarly children's“ preventorium ”on the mountain, above Antibes , in a dilapidated old castle; it is created from nothing and exists, it is held, also by nothing. ”
Died September 8, 1935 in Valbonne , France.
Notes
- ↑ FEB: ENI “Dictionary of Aliases”
- ↑ June 17, 1897, I. A. Bunin left for Odessa, where he met Anna Nikolaevna Tsakni, whom he soon proposed and married, This marriage was extremely unsuccessful: Bunin admitted: “if my feeling for Lopatina was romantic, then Tsakni was mine pagan passion. "
Literature
- Ofitserova E.V. I. A. Bunin in Tsaritsyn // Moscow Journal. - 2014. - No. 6 . - S. 13-26 . - ISSN 0868-7110 .
- Lopatin V.V., Lopatin N.V. Lopatin family // Studies in the history of Russian thought. Yearbook for 1997 - St. Petersburg, 1997.
Links
- Ekaterina Mikhailovna Lopatina in the "Jacob Krotov Library"
- Curriculum Vitae