Ekaterina Vladimirovna Vystavkina was a Russian writer, translator, journalist, and social activist.
Background
Ekaterina Vladimirovna Vystavkina was born on November 24 (December 6), 1877, in the village of Greshnevo, Staritsky district, Tver province (now Staritsky District, Tver Oblast, Russian Federation). It comes from an old noble family of Brovtsyns. Father was the provincial secretary.
Education
In 1896 Ekaterina Vladimirovna graduated from the Moscow School of the Order of St Catherine.
Since the 1910s, Ekaterina Vladimirovna was a member of the League for Equality of Women, in 1915 she was a member of the Council of the Moscow branch of the League. In 1919 she was a fellow secretary of the Simferopol Military Revolutionary Committee.
In the early 1920s Ekaterina Vladimirovna emigrated, she lived in Berlin. In the 1930s, she returned to Russia. She is the author of works on upbringing and the position of women in family and society. Translated from German the book of G. Tarde The criminal and crime (1906). She wrote the play The Red Cap, in 1912 awarded the prize in the competition of children's plays. As a poetess-translator, Ekaterina Vladimirovna participated in the collection Poetry of Armenia from ancient times to the present day in translations of Russian poets ... (1916) and in the Collection of Armenian Literature (1916). The most significant work is the novel of the feminist trend Amazon (1916), which was well commented on and promoted by V.G. Korolenko. After 1917, Ekaterina Vladimirovna was mainly engaged in translations.
Connections
Ekaterina Vladimirovna was married twice, and the second time to the social democrat Abram Grigorievich Gallop (1882 - after 1931).