19 Facts About Zinaida Vengerova

Zinaida Vengerova was a Russian literary critic and translator.

Zinaida Vengerova is considered one of the few women who were highly educated during her time, having studied in universities in Russia, France, and England.

Zinaida Vengerova influenced the first generation of Russian symbolists through her writings about French symbolism.

Zinaida Vengerova's mother, Paulina Iul'evna, came from a wealthy family and was a published author.

Zinaida Vengerova's father, Chonon, was a banker in Minsk.

Zinaida Vengerova is considered a pioneer of Russian literary history.

Zinaida Vengerova grew up in Saint Petersburg before her family moved to Minsk, where she completed her gymnasium education in 1881.

At an early age, Zinaida Vengerova was exposed to literature and foreign languages.

Zinaida Vengerova continued her education in Vienna, where she studied in western European literature and went back to St Petersburg to study at the Institute of Higher Studies for Women from 1884 to 1887.

Zinaida Vengerova relocated to Paris, where she took classes in literature at the Sorbonne.

Zinaida Vengerova became acquainted with and was a long-time friend of Olga Petit, the first French woman to become a lawyer.

Zinaida Vengerova was an emigre in Berlin, then Paris, and London.

Zinaida Vengerova went to live with her sister Isabelle Vengerova - a noted pianist - in New York after her husband's death in 1937 and lived there for four years.

Zinaida Vengerova moved to London to work for the British Museum.

Zinaida Vengerova is known for her criticism of conservatism as demonstrated in her approach to Russian literary criticism amid the new literary movements.

Zinaida Vengerova stressed individuality and criticized portrayals of divisions between men and women based on biology.

Zinaida Vengerova wrote a column covering European literature for Vestnik Evropy periodical for fifteen years.

Zinaida Vengerova pioneered Decadence as a "new art" and single-handedly constructed for Russians her interpretation of French Symbolism.

Zinaida Vengerova's husband instigated a protoecumenical ritual participated in by a group of intellectuals.