11 Facts About Tatiana Warsher

Tatiana Warsher was a Russian archaeologist known for her studies of Pompeii, especially her 40-volume Codex Topographicus Pompeianus.

Tatiana Warsher's father, Sergey Adamovich Warsher, was a literary historian specialising in Shakespeare, and her grandfather was a renowned church architect.

Sergey Warsher died when Tatiana was eight years old, after which the family was supported by her mother's friend Pavel Milyukov, a liberal politician and amateur archaeologist, who became a surrogate father to the young Tatiana.

In 1907 Tatiana Warsher moved to Riga, where she worked as a teacher.

Two years later her husband died suddenly, and Tatiana Warsher returned to Saint Petersburg.

Tatiana Warsher became involved with Milyukov's Constitutional Democratic Party and wrote about political issues.

Tatiana Warsher remarried, to the widowed brother of her first husband, in order to help raise his children.

Tatiana Warsher herself fled north for the duration of the Russian Civil War.

Tatiana Warsher worked in the editorial offices of Segodnya, a Russian-language newspaper in Riga, and was a correspondent for the Berlin-based Rul and Parisian Posledniye Novosti.

Tatiana Warsher gave a farewell public lecture in Riga, on the excavations at Pompeii, before leaving for Berlin in February 1922.

Tatiana Warsher arranged for her to work with the German Archaeological Institute and the American Academy in Rome, and introduced her to the lead excavator of Pompeii, Matteo Della Corte.