Avdotia Pavlovna Glinka


Avdotia Pavlovna Glinka, was a Russian spiritual writer, poet and translator. She was married to writer and mystic Fyodor Glinka. Their grand-daughter was the occultist anti-semite Yuliana Glinka.

Life

Avdotia Pavlovna Golenishtchev-Kutuzo was born on July 7, 1795 in Saint Petersburg. She was home-educated and lived in the Kuznetsovo estate in Bezhetsky District, Tver Oblast.
In 1831 she married the poet Fyodor Glinka, a cousin of the composer Mikhail Glinka. In 1832 she moved with him to Orel. In 1835 they moved to Moscow, and in 1853 to Saint Petersburg. In 1862 the couple moved back to Tver.
Her 1832 translation of Friedrich Schiller brought her notice. She published in the newspaper Northern Bee and the magazines Mayak and Strannik . Countess Polina was a novel of manners. Leonid Stepanovich and Liudmilla Sergeeva was one of the first anti-nihilistic novels in Russia.
In 1859 Glinka addressed a letter to Alexander Herzen, criticizing what she called a propaganda of "chaos and destruction", and calling for a return to Russian Orthodoxy. Herzen published a response, 'Answer to a Russian Lady', in the newspaper Kolokol.
Glinka died on July 26, 1863 in Tver.

Works

  • Pesnia o kolokole , translation of Schiller's Das [Lied von der Glocke], 1832.
  • Zhizn' presviatoi devy , 1840. In verse, sixteen editions up to 1915.
  • Gibel' ot pustogo chvanstva , 1852.
  • Tol'ko tri nedeli , 1851.
  • Grafinia Polina, , 1856.
  • Leonid Stepanovich and Liudmilla Sergeeva, 1856.
  • Katia, 1858.
  • Stikhotvoreniia Shillera. Zum Dichters 100 Jahrigem Geburtsfeste, 1859.