Raevskaya, Ekaterina Ivanovna

She was born in 1817 in the village of Sergeevskoye of the Dankovsky district of the Ryazan province . Her father, who later became a full-time state adviser, Ivan Petrovich Bibikov (1787-1856) was a participant in the Patriotic War of 1812 (he served as adjutant under General Tormasov), then a gendarme; on the basis of his denunciation, A. I. Polezhaev was sent from students to military service. Her mother, Sofya Gavrilovna Bibikova, daughter of Major General Gavriil Ilyich Bibikov (1747-1803).

She received an excellent home education, she perfectly knew Russian and was fluent in French, English, Italian, German, Polish and Latin.

She also studied at the School of Painting, was a student of the portrait painter P.F. Sokolov , who greatly appreciated her talent. The most famous portrait painted by her is a watercolor portrait of Alexander Ivanovich Polezhaev, who in 1834 stayed with the Bibikov family at a dacha in the Ilinskoe estate near Moscow ^[1] . Another portrait she painted was Mikhail Semenovich Schepkin ; in one theatrical newspaper, E. I. Raevskaya printed a note about him: "On the portrait of Mikhail Semenovich Shchepkin."

Since 1856, she was well acquainted with L.N. Tolstoy .

Fond of gardening, she planted apple trees and roses and planted both in the Nikitsky estate, Epifansky district , and in the farm of Dankovsky district of the Ryazan province, allocated when her daughter was married, where she planned the gardens and park. She lived on this cliff "Cliff" (Mordvinovka), two kilometers from the village of Begichevka ^[2] (now the village of Begichevo in the Lipetsk region ) until the end of her life. Famous writers, artists, and artists often came to the farm: I. Repin , V. Vasnetsov , I. Aivazovsky , N. Filosofov and others.

She died in the fall of 1899.

She was engaged in literary work, wrote memoirs. Her first stories and essays were published in the magazines Sovremennik , Domestic Notes , Library for Reading , and Moskovityan . In 1870 a series of her short stories and short stories “Steppe Servants” was published. In the years 1880-1890, some excerpts from her memoirs were published under the pseudonym "An old woman from the steppe" in the magazines " Russian Archive ", " Historical Bulletin ", "Week":

Russian archive

• "Meeting with Polezhaev" (1882. - III (6). - S. 233-243);
• "In memory of V. A. Zolotov" (1883. - I (1). - S. 200-206);
• “From the memorial book of E. I. Raevskaya. Decembrists (I. G. Bibikov, Prince Valerian Golitsyn, M. N. Naryshkin) ”(1883. - 1 (2). - S. 291-302);
• “Engrafters and engrafters” (1883. - II (3). - S. 70-79);
• "Note on gr. E. P. Rastopchina ”(1885. - III (10). - S. 299-303);
• “In memory of the few. About doctors (V. S. Georgievsky, Karl Masing, D. V. Nasonov, A. I. Drozdov) ”(1888. - I (2). - S. 292-310);
• “From the memoirs of E. I. Raevskaya. Baron Mengden. Prince Cherkassky before the duel. His peasants ”(1896. - I (2). - S. 220-240).

"Historical Bulletin"

• “Memories” (1898).

"A week"

• "Steppe Servants" (1889. - November. - S. 1–33).

Her diaries and memoirs about Leo Tolstoy and his family were published in 1938 in Moscow in the Chronicles of the State Literary Museum. She wrote articles and memoirs on the history of Dankovsky county. In the last years of her life, she worked on the two-volume Chronicle of the Balovnevo Village for a Hundred Years. She also owns “The Experience of Comparative Grammar of the Russian and French Languages ​​by the Methodology of Academician J. K. Grot” (Moscow: E. Gerbek, 1890. - 213 pp.)

E.I. Bibikova-Raevskaya headed the museum of the Battle of Kulikovo on the estate of the Nechaevs Polibino.

In 1835, Ekaterina Ivanovna Bibikova married the wealthy Tula landowner Ivan Artemievich Raevsky (1815-1869), who in 1850 was the Epifansky district leader of the nobility , and in 1861 - the world mediator . They had nine children. Daughter Margarita (1856-1912) was married to Ivan Nikolaevich Mordvinov (1859-1917); on the Utes cliff they had a son, Vladimir (1881-1971).

• Raevskaya, Ekaterina Ivanovna // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
• Bibikova-Raevskaya Ekaterina Ivanovna (1817-1900)
• Raevskaya E.I. Lev Tolstoy among the starving / Preface. and note. P.S. Popova // L.N. Tolstoy. - M.: Publishing House of the State. lit. Museum, 1938. - [T. I]. - S. 371-437. - (Annals of the State Literary Museum; Prince 12).

• Raevskaya, Ekaterina Ivanovna at the Rodovod . Tree of ancestors and descendants