Karolina Pavlova - Knowledge

246:(Russian: Двойная жизнь), in 1848. It is a ten-chapter novel that mixes prose and poetry to illustrate the duality of women and of members of high society. The heroine of the novel is Cecily von Lindenborn. While Cecily has an undeniable, secret yearning for poetry, women poets were "always presented to her as the most pitiable, abnormal state, as a disastrous and dangerous illness." The poetry is symbolic of the inner world of Cecily. Like most other Russian novels of the time, Pavlova's novel is situated in the aristocratic world. Cecily, a member of this world, has been so carefully brought up that "she could never commit the slightest peccadillo ... could never forget herself for a moment, raise her voice half a tone ... enjoy a conversation with a man to the point where she might talk to him ten minutes longer than was proper, or look to the right when she was supposed to look to the left." She is lured into the respectable yet meaningless life of a woman of high society and into marriage by the people that are closest to her, yet, her dreams, which come to her in the form of poems, have warned her. 31: 173:

visited Pavlova, who was working not only as a poet, but also as a translator among Russian, French and German. She translated his poetry and plays into German. He in turn secured a pension for her from the Russian government and corresponded warmly and solicitously with her until his death in 1875.

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In nineteenth century Russia, the literature being produced "equalled that written at any place at any time in history," but most famous authors were male. Although she was a poet who helped Russian poetry transcend national borders with her translations, Pavlova was a female poet living in a man's

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Peace, Richard. "The nineteenth century: the natural school and its aftermath, 1840 55". The Cambridge History of Russian Literature, ed. Charles A. Moser.New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.p.235

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world. Even when they admired her poetry her literary friends composed condescending memoirs, articles or private letters condemning Pavlova. Her poetry was heavily criticized in

138:. Pavlova's husband gambled her inheritance away and began living with her younger cousin in another household he had set up. The marriage ended in 1853. She went to 626: 158:, the "profoundest love of her life." In January 1854, Pavlova's son went back to live with his father in Moscow and go to the university there. 130:, who admitted he married her for her money. Pavlova had a son, Ippolit. For years they ran a literary salon in Moscow that was visited by both 656: 621: 118:. Her father was a German professor of physics and chemistry at the School of Medicine and Surgery in Moscow. Pavlova was homeschooled. Her 646: 651: 597: 574: 344: 263: 301: 185:

combined Pavlova's work into two volumes which he published in 1915. Pavlova was called the "master of Russian verse" by

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Terras, Victor. 1991. A History of Russian Literature. Castleton, N.Y.: Hamilton Printing Co. p. 225-226

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Although Pavlova's poetry was poorly accepted by her contemporaries, it was rediscovered in the 1900s by the

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Peace, Richard. 1992. "The nineteenth century: the natural school and its aftermath, 1840–55".

542:. 1978. "Karolina Pavlova: The woman Poet and the Double Life." Oakland: Barbary Coast Books. 126:(and also her first love), was "stunned by her literary talents." She was married in 1837 to 641: 636: 207:, written in 1831, was Karolina's first poem in Russian. Some of her other works include: 8: 296:, Columbia University Press, 2019 (The Russian Library). Translated by Barbara Heldt. 593: 570: 340: 297: 284: 259: 190: 139: 123: 182: 54: 590:

Reinventing romantic poetry: Russian women poets of the mid-nineteenth century

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