Evgenia Konradi
Evgenia Ivanovna Konradi was a Russian writer, journalist, and translator. She was first an editor, then owner of the newspaper Nedelya, in which she published articles on society in foreign countries.
Biography
Evgenia Bochechkarova was born in Moscow in 1838. Toward the end of the 1850s, she moved to St Petersburg and married P. F. Konradi, a doctor and journalist. Between 1866 and 1868, Konradi published articles in the journal Zhensky Vestnik, a publication dedicated to the position of women in society. Konradi wrote predominantly for the section dedicated to life for women in foreign countries. In 1868, Konradi became editor of the political and literary newspaper Nedelya, before buying the paper in 1869 with P. A. Gaideburov and Yu. A. Rossel. In 1873, Nedelya had approximately 2,500 subscribers. Konradi left Nedelya in 1874, after which she suffered financial hardship.In 1885, Konradi took one of her sons to Switzerland for medical care for his consumption, but he died. After his death, Konradi never returned to Russia, dying in a public hospital in Paris in 1898.