Verbitskaia, Anastasiia (1861–1928)
Verbitskaia, Anastasiia (1861–1928)
Russian novelist, playwright and short-story writer. Name variations: Anastasia or Anastasiia Alekseevna Verbítskaia or Verbitskaya. Born 1861 in Russia; died 1928, living in obscurity in Moscow.
Wrote the hugely popular saga The Keys to Happiness (6 vols., 1909–13), which was filmed twice and outsold War and Peace; also wrote Discord (1887), Spirit of the Times (1907), plays, children's fiction, and autobiographies, To My Reader and My Reminiscences; after the 1917 Revolution, her books were removed from stores for allegedly being counter-revolutionary.
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DIED: 1977, Montreaux, Switzerland
NATIONALITY: Russian-American
GENRE: Fiction, poetry
MAJOR WORKS:
King, Queen, Knave (1928)
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BORN: 1870, Akyab, Burma
DIED: 1916, Beaumont-Hamel, France
NATIONALITY: French
GENRE: Fiction
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Reginald in Russia (1910)
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