1. Adelaida Gertsyk was a Russian translator, poet and writer of the Silver Age.
11 Facts About Adelaida Gertsyk
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Adelaida Kazimirovna Gertsyk was born on 16 February 1874 in Alexandrov of the Moscow Governorate in the Russian Empire to Sofia Maximilianovna and Kasimir Antonovich Lubny-Gertsyk.
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Adelaida Gertsyk's father was descended of an impoverished Polish-Lithuanian noble family and worked as an engineer for the railroad, heading the construction of the Moscow-Yaroslavl line.
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Adelaida Gertsyk studied at the Moscow Women's Gymnasium and after graduating, studied art history, literature and philosophy on her own.
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Adelaida Gertsyk produced translations with her sister, Eugenia and began writing poetry during her relationship with Alexander Bobrychev-Pushkin, a married lawyer and poet.
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Adelaida Gertsyk was much older than she, but their relationship inspired her to write and influenced her later works.
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Adelaida Gertsyk died suddenly in 1903 and as a result of the shock, Gertsyk partially lost her hearing.
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Adelaida Gertsyk gained praise for the works from such artists as Konstantin Balmont, Valery Bryusov, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Maximilian Voloshin, and others.
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In January, 1909, in Paris, Adelaida Gertsyk married Zhukovsky, a biologist, publisher, and translator of philosophical literature, who was a member of the Russian aristocracy and well-to-do.
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Adelaida Gertsyk became friends with and was influenced by Sergei Bulgakov to convert from Lutheranism to Russian Orthodoxy.
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Adelaida Gertsyk died in a hospital in Sudak after suffering an acute attack of nephritis on 25 June 1925 and was buried in the Sudak Cemetery.