Aníchkova, Anna (1868–1935)
Aníchkova, Anna (1868–1935)
Russian author and translator. Born Anna Mitrofanovna in 1868 in Russia; died in 1935 in Russia; married E.V. Aníchkov (a literary critic).
Selected works:
La pensée russe contemporaine (Contemporary Russian Thought, 1903); L'ombre de la maison (The Shadow of the House, 1904).
With her husband, literary critic E.V. Aníchkov, Anna Aníchkova moved from Russia to Paris in the late 1890s. There, she created a literary salon that was frequented by writers such as Anatole France and Viacheslav Ivanov. Aníchkova wrote novels in French, the most popular of which, L'ombre de la maison (1904), was translated into English as The Shadow of the House. She also contributed to several French periodicals (Revue de Paris, Revue Bleu, and Figaro), and penned a collection of essays on contemporary Russian intellectuals. In 1909, the Aníchkovs returned to Russia, where Anna began contributing short fiction to "thick journals," voluminous literary journals of essay, fiction, and verse, which often represented political views and were unique for their regular female contributors. Though her fiction was critically well received, after the 1917 revolution Aníchkova turned her literary talents to other efforts. From 1917 until her death in 1935, she devoted her writing exclusively to translation.