Background
Anna Alekseevna Volkova was born in 1781 in Saint Petersburg City, Russian Federation. Volkova's father was in the diplomatic service.
Anna Alekseevna Volkova was born in 1781 in Saint Petersburg City, Russian Federation. Volkova's father was in the diplomatic service.
Anna Alekseevna had a home education and lived in Saint Petersburg.
Later, Anna Alekseevna wrote numerous odes, including the coronation of Paul I (1796). After the death of her father, she lived in poverty. To help Anna Alekseevna, A.S. Shishkov published by subscription with his foreword a collection of Poems of the Girl of Volkova (1807), which was dominated by verses with sensitive descriptions of nature (they most clearly show Volkova’s desire for smoothness and correctness of the verse and the general tone of spiritual “piety” (Anthem of Virtue and others). Shishkov’s literary ideas didn’t influence the work of Volkova, the remaining student of 18th-century moralist poets, and especially M. M. Kheraskov, to whom she was deeply reverent. For almost two decades (1808-1824), Volkova’s poems appear in The Russian Herald.
The last years of her life she spent in "deep silence and perfect solitude."
According to some evidence, possibly dating back to Volkova’s poems, Anna Alekseevna refused to marry so as not to leave her blind father.
