Ekaterina Burnasheva

Background

Ekaterina Burnasheva was born on January 2, 1819, in Penza, Russian Federation. She was born in an old noble family. Her father was a former Kursk Vice-Governor. Her cousins were V. P. Burnashev and S.P. Burnasheva.

Education

In mid-1838, Ekaterina Burnasheva graduated from the women's department of Saint Peter's School in Saint Petersburg like her sister Maria (1817-1861), who studied at the same school ( 1834-1837). In her youth, she showed an aptitude for languages but dreamed of becoming a writer.

After receiving the title of the class teacher, she could not find herself for a long time; despite the need, she continued to improve my education. In 1842-1845, together with her sister, she took lessons in the main European and ancient languages from scholar K.V. Grossgeinrich, and in Russian literature from A.V. Nikitenko, with the aim of becoming useful for Russian literature.

Career

In 1851-1857 Ekaterina Burnasheva worked as a female teacher of primary classes in the educational society of noble maidens. In the next 10 years, she served in the Nikolaev Orphan Institute as a warden, teaching young children.

Ekaterina Burnasheva appeared in print in 1846 with a French translation of the work of A.K. Valeri Journey to Corsica, the island of Elba and Sardinia. In 1848, the Northern Bee she published feuilleton Town, polemically directed in defense of the purity of the Russian language. In the following year, in the Library for reading (vol. 94-96), Ekaterina Burnasheva published the translation from a German book of Grossgeinrich Elisabeth Kulman and her poems, made jointly with her sister Maria; the translation, which helped to recreate the living portrait of the young poetess and her tragic fate, elicited approving responses.

Young readers enjoyed Burnasheva's translation from English work by F. Marrnet Rustig Sigismund. Bremen Navigator. New Robinson. In 1853-1856, Ekaterina Burnasheva was an employee of A.I. Ishimov's magazines Zvezdochka and Rays, where she published articles on education, small notes on the Mix section. At the end of 1859, Ekaterina Burnasheva took part in a controversy on the issue of women's education, undertaken by N.A. Destunis. In 1861, she published Correspondence of a student with a mentor as a guide for teaching translation (in French and German), containing her actual correspondence with Grossgeinrich for several years;

Shortly before her death, Ekaterina Burnasheva left her teaching career; she got close to the circle of the magazine Russian antiquity. In 1873, Ekaterina Burnasheva translated the manuscript the authentic memoirs of De La Fleuse, a doctor of the French Napoleonic guard, The March of the Grand Army to Russia in 1812.

Interests

• languages,writing

Connections

Cousin:

Vladimir Burnashev

Sister:

Maria

(1817-1861)

Cousin:

Sofya Petrovna Burnasheva

References

• Russian writers. 1800-1917. Biographical Dictionary. Volume 1
  1989