Russian women travellers

[A.Smith]

Dear Sarah,

You might wish to add to your list of writers Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams who
wrote a book of travel sketches on Turkey "Staraia Turtsiia I mladoturki:
god v Konstantinopole", Petrograd, Tip. B. M. Volfa, 1916, 179p. It was
written in 1916 when Tyrkova and her husband Harold Williams lived in Turkey
(he worked as a British correspondent there).
In her famous diary Marie Bashkirtseff depicts her travelling experiences in
Spain, Italy, etc. 
Lev Tolstoy had a very high opinion of Zinaida Gippius's travel sketch
(ocherk) "Svetloe ozero" (Novyj Put', nos 1-2, 1904). It describes some
sacred areas in the North of Russia, flagellants, etc.
Zinaida Gippius's sister -- Anna Gippius- also produced  travel writing
sketches. Her sister wrote a sketch about her visit to Solovetsky islands
(SOLOVKI).(she wrote fiction and poetry under the pseudonym Anna
Giz)--"Ocherk o solovetskikh ostrovakh". The shortened version of this text
is located  at this site: http://www.rozhdestvenka.ru/gippius.htm

I hope this information will be of some help to you.

Best,

Alexandra Smith


Lecturer in Russian (PhD, University of London)
Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies
University of Sheffield

Alexandra.Smith at sheffield.ac.uk

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