Baranskaya, Natalia (b. 1908)
Baranskaya, Natalia (b. 1908)
Russian short-story writer and feminist. Name variations: Natalya or Natál'ia Baránskaia or Baranskaia. Born Natalia Vladmírovna Baranskaya, Dec 31, 1908, in St. Petersburg, Russia; dau. of revolutionaries who never married; graduated from Moscow State University, 1930; married 1928 (div. 1932); married a cousin (soldier), mid-1930s (killed in battle, 1943); children: (2nd m.) 2.
Spent infancy in hiding from tsarist police; parents imprisoned (1910); on their release, fled with them to Switzerland, then Germany, where she lived until the outbreak of WWI; returned to Russia with mother; worked as curator at Pushkin museum in Moscow (1958–66); at 61, published Nedelia kak nedelia (1969), detailing the day-to-day experiences of a mother, wife, homemaker and professional, which has been translated into 6 languages, including English (A Week Like Any Other); also wrote Den' pominoveniia (Memorial Day, 1989) and short stories, some of which appear in Images of Women in Contemporary Fiction (1976) and Soviet Women Writing (1981).