Avdotya Panaeva
Russian novelist and memoirist, editor · Russia · On the map · Writers · Lived 1820 to 1893 · aged 72
Avdotya Yakovlevna Panaeva, née Bryanskaya, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, memoirist and literary salon holder. She worked closely with writers Ivan Panaev, Nikolay Nekrasov, and Vissarion Belinsky to run the literary journal Sovremennik.
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She was a frequent contributor to The Contemporary (Sovremennik) and published much of her work under the male pseudonym N. Stanitsky. Her fiction sheds light on social injustice and the emancipation of women. Her best known work is her novel The Talnikov Family (1848), published in English in 2024 by Colombia University Press.
