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This is a list of women writers who were born in Russia or whose writings are closely associated with that country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Larissa Volokhonsky (Russian: Лариса Волохонская) was born into a Jewish family in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, on 1 October 1945.After graduating from Leningrad State University with a degree in mathematical linguistics, she worked in the Institute of Marine Biology (Vladivostok) and travelled extensively in Sakhalin Island and Kamchatka (1968–1973).
Sabina Spielrein as child (left), with her mother and sister. She was born in 1885 into a wealthy Jewish family in Rostov-on-Don, Russian Empire.Her mother Eva (born Khave) Lublinskaya was the daughter and granddaughter of rabbis from Yekaterinoslav. [8]
Anna Petrovna Bunina (Russian: Анна Петровна Бунина, IPA: [ˈannə pʲɪˈtrovnə ˈbunʲɪnə] ⓘ; January 18, 1774 – December 16, 1829) was a Russian poet. She was the first female Russian writer to make a living solely from literary work. [1] [2] She belonged to the same noble family that Ivan Bunin and Vasily Zhukovsky ...
Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich [1] (born 31 May 1948) is a Belarusian investigative journalist, essayist and oral historian who writes in Russian. She was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time".
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:19th-century writers from the Russian Empire. It includes Russian writers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
In aristocratic Russian society, the greater freedoms allowed to women led to the rise of the powerful, socially-connected woman, including such iconic figures as Catherine the Great, Maria Naryshkina, and Countess Maria Razumovskaya. Women also began to compete with men in the literary sphere, with Russian women authors, poets, and memoirists ...
Young peasant women (like other Russian women) spent far more of their child-bearing years as married women than their counterparts in Western Europe did. [21] Childbirth was dangerous for both mother and child in the eighteenth-century but if a peasant woman was able to, she could potentially give birth, on average, to seven children.