Elizaveta Militsyna was a Russian prose writer and essayist.
Background
Elizaveta Militsyna (née Razuvaeva) was born on April 24 according to the old calendar (May 6), 1869 in Ostrogozhsk, Voronezh Province (now Ostrogozhsk, Voronezh, Russian Federation), in the family of a landlord clerk (her mother was from a family of serfs).
Career
Elizaveta Militsyna was first published in 1898 (in the newspaper "Russkie Vedomosti", magazines "Russkaya Mysl", "Russkoye Bogatstvo", "Vestnik Evropy", "Zhizn Dlya Vseh", and others). Wrote about the life of common people and peasants. Corresponded with Alexei Maximovich Gorky, who played a major role in her literary fate.
She is an author of the book "Stories" (St. Petersburg, 1910). The book was awarded an honorary review of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Elizaveta Militsyna was a member of the Colloquy of Lovers of the Russian Word (1913).
During World War I she worked in hospitals. Excerpts from the censorship of the anti-war "Notes of the Sister of Mercy" (1915) were read from the stage by V.I. Kachalov (1916). After October 1917, she was engaged in social, cultural and educational activities. In 1919-1922 she was in charge of the volost library, then a kindergarten in the village of Shukavka, Voronezh district. Later, the head of the reading room at a sugar factory (Olkhovatka Rossoshansky County, until October 1928). She published essays and correspondence in the Voronezh newspapers and collections.
She was buried next to the graves of Alexei Vasilyevich Koltsov and Ivan Savvich Nikitin.
Elizaveta Mitrofanovna was an anti-war movement activist.
Connections
In 1889 Militsyna married the manager of Tolstye estate G. Kargin, after 3 years they separated. In 1894 she married agronomist N.A. Militsyn, moved with him to Moscow.