1. Eugenia Kazimirovna Gertsyk was born on 12 October 1878 in Alexandrov of the Vladimir Governorate in the Russian Empire to Sofia Maximilianovna and Kasimir Antonovich Lubny-Gertsyk.
11 Facts About Eugenia Gertsyk
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Eugenia 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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Eugenia Gertsyk went on to further her education studying history and philosophy entering the Bestuzhev Courses in 1901, from which she graduated with honors in 1905.
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Eugenia Gertsyk began her career as a translator, working on translations of writers such as Edward Carpenter, Joris-Karl Huysmans, William James, and Friedrich Nietzsche, among others.
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Eugenia Gertsyk wrote translations with her sister, of the works of Jean-Marie Guyau, Immanuel Kant, and Nietzsche.
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Parnok and both Eugenia Gertsyk sisters wrote verse, Spendiarov wrote songs, and Erarskaya staged plays, Parnok viewed Eugenia Gertsyk as a spiritual mother, someone who was helping her mature in her devotion.
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Eugenia Gertsyk's sister died in Sudak in 1925 and the following year, Adelaide's husband Dmitry Evgenievich Zhukovsky was banished to the Vologda Oblast.
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Eugenia Gertsyk provided the constant care and nursing needed by Lyubov Aleksandrovna, who had polyarthritis, and helped with raising her niece.
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Around this same time, Eugenia Gertsyk began to write her memoirs in 1936 and continued her wide correspondence with many Russian emigres.
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Eugenia Gertsyk died on 20 January 1944 at a farm in the village of Zelenaya Steppe in the Kursk Oblast.
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Eugenia Gertsyk is most known today for her various memoirs and letter collections which have been published and give a unique perspective on life in the interwar period.