Background
Elena Ivanovna Veltman (family name - Kube) was born on February 6, 1816, in Warsaw, Poland. She was a daughter of a platz-major, a Germanized Russian.
Elena Ivanovna Veltman (family name - Kube) was born on February 6, 1816, in Warsaw, Poland. She was a daughter of a platz-major, a Germanized Russian.
Elena Ivanovna spent her youth in Odessa, was a member of the literature circle, headed by A.I.Podolinsky. She wrote poetry and prose. Elena Ivanovna studied pedagogy, the history of art, and other sciences, never abandoned literature classes.
Her first published prose was They had a dream (1846). Obviously, at that time Elena Ivanovna met and became close to A.F. Veltman in Moscow.
The main topic in her works was marriage and family, inequality of women. Proses They had a dream, Oksana (1846), Lydia. A story from the life of a music teacher (1848), Marquise Luigi (1848), Alcibiades of his family (1849) immediately brought her literary fame.
Raging passions, an action that often takes place on the background of the exotic nature of south, the "emotions" of style allows us to discover in the work of this period a certain tribute to the romantic traditions. Critics marked her talent, although, for example, there are certain fragments Victor (1853) story, similar to the Dead Souls, unreasonably seemed to them attacks against Gogol.
The main work of Elena Ivanovna was a historical novel The adventures of prince Gustav Irikovich, the bridegroom of princess Ksenia Godunova (1867), she was writing it about 20 years. The book is based on a thorough study of lots of foreign sources, reproduced the picture of life in Europe and Russia at the end of the 16th - beginning of the 17th century. She received positive feedback from M. Gorky in her novel "A worthwhile book. Solid. A lot of historical material was engaged" (1967).
In recent years, Elena Ivanovna was increasingly interested in religious issues, which was reflected in the content of the book Alphabet and reading for the first age (1862). The other works: a story Daughter of a sailor (1850), fairy tale Troika Miroshi (1847), an article A vision of Russian reader of English literature (1849), guidebook Shrines and memorials of Moscow Kremlin (1873).
Quotes from others about the person
According to A.F. Koni, she was a key figure at Veltman’s Thursdays' literature circles: "Dry, tall, with smart eyes and a decisive, confident speech."
Under the pressure of financial circumstances, Elena Ivanovna married the widower P.D. Krupennikov. In 1850, having achieved a divorce, she married A.F. Veltman. She helped her husband with his works, took over the house. She told that looked at the world through the eyes of her husband.