Sofya Nikolaevna Motovilova ( February 6, 1881 , Simbirsk [1] [2] - February 28, 1966 [3] [4] , Kiev ) - librarian [5] [6] , bibliographer, writer [7] [8] , memoirist [9 ] . Niece R.E. Klasson , aunt V.P. Nekrasov [10] [11] . She was familiar and corresponded with B. Pasternak [12] , I. G. Erenburg [13] , V. Ya. Bryusov , K. I. Chukovsky , V. G. Korolenko , D. D. Burliuk and many others [14] .
| Sofya Nikolaevna Motovilova | |
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| Date of Birth | February 16, 1881 |
| Place of Birth | Simbirsk |
| Date of death | February 28, 1966 (85 years old) |
| Place of death | Kiev |
| Citizenship |  Russia →  the USSR |
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| Father | Nikolai Ivanovich Motovilov |
| Mother | Alina Antonovna Motovilova (nee von Ern) |
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Biography
Sofya Nikolaevna Motovilova was born on February 6, 1881 in the city of Simbirsk [15] in the family of a landowner [16] . In 1909 she graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the Higher Women's Courses in St. Petersburg [17] [18] . After completing the courses, she was left at the Department of Geology at F. Levinson-Lessing . In 1915 she was a graduate of the first library courses in Russia, organized at the University of Shanyavsky [19] . Head of the library in Samara . From 1918 to 1919 she worked at the People's Commissariat for Education under the leadership of N.K. Krupskaya and V. Ya. Bryusov [15] .
Since 1919 she lived in Kiev [15] . A long-term bibliographer of the library of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences , as well as a bibliographer in research and educational institutes [15] . In 1956, during the persecution of B. Pasternak S. Motovilov, who knew him from her work in 1918 at the People's Commissariat of Education, she began mutual correspondence with him. Pasternak wrote to her:
I wrote you a big letter about this side of my fate, too detailed, probably due to your fault, because a rush of my gratitude to you brought me into such details [20] .
All my life I kept a diary [15] . About her literary abilities, Korney Chukovsky in 1960 responded as follows:
I always appreciated your literary talent ... I read all your manuscripts. Everything is talented, everything is interesting. They will be especially good in the book, since they all overlap and complement each other [16] .
She died on February 28, 1966 in Kiev, and is buried in the Baykovsky cemetery , on the site number 13 [15] .
Family
- Sisters - Zinaida Nikolaevna Nekrasova (1879-1970) - doctor, Vera Nikolaevna Motovilova-Ulyanova (1885-1968 [21] ).
Literary work
- Motovilova S. "My meeting with Tolstoy" - memories - mash. [1960s] [22] [23] .
- Motovilova S. "Past" // "New World", 1963, No. 12, pp. 75-127. (All references to B. Pasternak in these memoirs were stopped, because at that time censorship did not allow him to be mentioned.) [24]
- Motovilova S. “The Death Letter” // Continent, 1978, No. 15, pp. 67–84.
- Motovilova S. “Tina” // Website of the memory of Victor Nekrasov [15] .
It was also published in the “Library Worker” [25] .
Notes
- ↑ Nogin. (romance of forms)
- ↑ Ulyanovsk-Simbirsk Encyclopedia: AM
- ↑ Neva
- ↑ Somehow drama
- ↑ New review, Books 248-249
- ↑ The history of pre-revolutionary Russia in diaries and memoirs
- ↑ Complete works with appendices: Letters 1954-1960
- ↑ I hear everything: the post of Ilya Erenburg, 1916-1967
- ↑ Chukovsky K.I. Diary. 1901-1969 T 2
- ↑ Everything in the world, except for an awl and a nail
- ↑ Case: at the crossroads of meetings
- ↑ In memoriam: a historical collection in memory of A. I. Dobkin
- ↑ Frezinsky Boris Yakovlevich . "I hear everything ... Ilya Erenburg Post 1916-1967." - Moscow: Publishing house "Agraf", 2006. - S. 362, 438, 440, 600.
- ↑ Victor Nekrasov before and after
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Sofya Nikolaevna Motovilova
- ↑ 1 2 “I ALWAYS HIGHLY APPROVED YOUR LITERARY TALENT”
- ↑ Storming the citadel of science. Female scientists of the Russian Empire
- ↑ Scientific and technical libraries
- ↑ Librarian
- ↑ An article that turns out to be prophetic
- ↑ Close relatives of Victor Platonovich Nekrasov (1911-1987) // Website in memory of Victor Nekrasov
- ↑ Reference: Russian State Archive of Literature and Art. Guide. Issue 8. 2004
- ↑ Russian State Archive of Literature
- ↑ We - by name - recall all those who raised their hands ...
- ↑ Central State Archive of the October Revolution, the highest organs of state power, and the organs of state administration of the USSR: Pre-revolutionary period
Links
- Sofya Nikolaevna Motovilova
- On February 6, 1881, Sofya Nikolaevna MOTOVILOVA was born in Simbirsk, now Ulyanovsk
- Victor Nekrasov reads the article "Sofya Motovilova - 100 years"
- Victor Nekrasov reads a small portrait of Chukovsky
- Victor Nekrasov reads the article “115th Birth Anniversary of Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya”