Ekaterina Kniazhnina

Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Kniazhnina (Russian: Екатери́на Алекса́ндровна Княжнина́; 1746 – 6 June 1797)[1] was an 18th-century Russian poet.[2] Her surname also appears as Knyazhnina.

Kniazhnina was the daughter of Alexander Sumarokov, a poet and playwright, and Ohanna Khristiforovna Balk, a lady-in-waiting to the future Catherine the Great.[3] She was born and lived in St. Petersburg. She married Yakov Knyazhnin in 1770. She was one of the first Russian women to have poetry published in Russian journals.[2] Kniazhnina was the hostess of an important literary salon.[4]

She was the first Russian woman to write an elegy and is considered by Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary to be "the first Russian woman writer".[5] She, along with Elizaveta Kheraskova and Alexandra Rzhevskaia were the first women to see their works printed in Russian journals.[4][6]

Ivan Krylov wrote a parody about Kniazhnina and her husband in 1787, Prokazniki (The trouble-makers).[2]

References

  1. ^ Княжнина Екатерина Александровна, biography at the 18th Century Russian Language dictionary // Словарь русского языка XVIII века. — М:. Институт русской литературы и языка, 1988—1999.
  2. ^ a b c Ledkovskai︠a︡-Astman, Marina; Rosenthal, Charlotte; Zirin, Mary Fleming (1994). Dictionary of Russian Women Writers. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 298–99. ISBN 0313262659.
  3. ^ Levitt, Marcus (2017-12-17), "1. Sumarokov: Life and Works", Early Modern Russian Letters, Academic Studies Press, pp. 6–21, doi:10.1515/9781618116741-003, ISBN 978-1-61811-674-1
  4. ^ a b Barker, Adele Marie; Gheith, Jehanne M (2002). A History of Women's Writing in Russia. Cambridge University Press. p. 330. ISBN 1139433156.
  5. ^ Vincent, Patrick H (2004). The Romantic Poetess: European Culture, Politics, and Gender, 1820-1840. p. 47. ISBN 1584654317.
  6. ^ "Княжнина, Екатерина Александровна". Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary: In 86 Volumes (82 Volumes and 4 Additional Volumes) (in Russian). St. Petersburg: F. A. Brockhaus. 1890–1907.


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