Background
Anna Dmitrievna Ulyanova was born on January 7, 1813. Nothing is known about the place of birth and childhood.
Anna Dmitrievna Ulyanova was born on January 7, 1813. Nothing is known about the place of birth and childhood.
From 1821 Anna Dmitrievna was educated at the German school of Saint Peter in Saint Petersburg.
The literary debut is the story Tsarskoye Selo (1841). Its plot repeats the story Story About the past (1844). Among the best works is the romantic secular novel Bert Hohenbusch (1845), in which a psychologically accurate account of women's fate is combined with descriptions of the life and everyday life of the Peterburg German families of the early 40s. The first book of short stories for children was the storyteller's Grandmother (1843).
In the 1840s and 50s, Anna Dmitrievna actively collaborated in A. O. Ishimova's children's magazines, filling them with her sentimental works ( the story My my grandfather and my grandmother (1859), the story Basil and his tutor (1858), the story of Grisha's Adventures (1859) and the story Dangerous gift (1859).
Also, Anna Dmitrievna made a children's Russian alphabet in 1845.