Elena Alekseevna Bulanina was a popular Russian poetess and teacher. Her pedagogical interests were expressed in creating the poems-portraits devoted to Russian literature classics.
Background
Alekseevna Bulanina (nee Protopopova) was born on the 1st June of 1866 (in some sources in 1876) in Moscow, Russian Federation in the family of a lawyer, collegiate adviser Alexey Protopopov, she was a descendant of an old Moscow noble family.
Education
Bulanina's literary interests were manifested early enough due to the influence of her aunt E.S. Borodina, wife of composer A.P. Borodin.
After graduated from the 2nd Moscow gymnasium in 1884, Elena Alekseevna attended a course of romance-Germanic literature at the Sorbonne.
Career
In 1896- 1906 taught in Samara, then - in Moscow (until 1917 ), in the public schools of M.F. Kalaidovich and Y.K. Dekonskoj. Bulanina's poetry collection Razdum'e ( 1901) was interesting mainly as the evidence of Russian Democrat. She also translated some works of O. Wilde. After October 1917 Elena Alekseevna some time served in the Moscow publishing house Nikitiny subbotniki.