Lochvickaja, Mirra Aleksandrovna

Autor: Lochvickaja, Mirra Aleksandrovna
Rok: 1869-1905

Biogr./Hist. údaje: Ruská básnířka.
Zdroj: Autoritní databáze Národní knihovny ČR

Mirra Lokhvitskaya (Russian: Ми́рра Ло́хвицкая; born Maria Alexandrovna Lokhvitskaya – Russian: Мари́я Алекса́ндровна Ло́хвицкая; November 19, 1869 – August 27, 1905) was a Russian poet who rose to fame in the late 1890s and, due to the flamboyantly erotic sensuality of her works, was regarded as the "Russian Sappho" by her contemporaries, which did not correspond with her conservative life style of dedicated wife and mother of five sons. In her short lifetime Lokhvitskaya published five books of poetry, the first and the last of which received the most coveted Russian literary award of the day, the Pushkin Prize. Completely forgotten in Soviet times (when she was dismissed as one of the petty balmontoids), in recent years Lokhvitskaya's legacy has been totally reassessed. She is generally regarded now as one of the most original and influential voices of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry and the first in the line of modern Russian women poets who paved the way for Akhmatova and Tsvetaeva. Lokhvitskaya's younger sister Nadezhda became a well-known humorist writer better known as Teffi, and their brother Nikolay Lokhvitsky, a Russian White Army general and a one-time associate of Kolchak, fought against the Red Army forces in Siberia.