Evgenia Aleksandrovna Taratuta was a Soviet and Russian writer and literary critic, and memoirist.
Background
Evgenia Aleksandrovna Taratuta was born on the 17th of May, 1912 in Paris, France. She was born in a family of anarchist revolutionaries who lived in exile. Father - Alexander Grigorievich Taratuta (Ovsey Meer Gershkovich), creator of a number of anarchist groups, mother - Agniya Markova. After the February Revolution of 1917, the family returned to Russia.
Education
Evgenia Aleksandrovna graduated from the historical and ethnological faculty of Moscow University in 1932.
Career
Evgenia Aleksandrovna worked in the organizing committee of the Union of Writers since 1932, then in the children's library in Moscow from 1933 to 1937, in the journal Smena in 1937.
Returning to Moscow from exile, she worked in the editorial office of the children's magazine "Murzilka" from 1940 to 1941, later on, the All-Union Radio in the editorial office of children's broadcasting in 1943. Evgenia Aleksandrovna was a consultant at the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences from 1941 to 1949, and from 1949 she worked at the Institute of World Literature named after Gorky.
In 1950 Evgenia Aleksandrovna was arrested on charges of espionage, convicted of "counter-revolutionary activity" for 15 years in prison, sent to a camp in the Komi ASSR. Rehabilitated and released in April 1954, reinstated at work at the Institute of World Literature named after Gorky.
Since the mid-1950s, Evgenia Aleksandrovna had been studying the work of Ethel Lilian Voynich, found a completely forgotten writer in the United States (the whole process is described in the book "Following the Trail of the Gadfly"), and prepared for publication in the USSR her collected works. She is the author of several books about the life and work of S. M. Stepnyak-Kravchinsky, memoirist, author of memoirs about Korney Chukovsky, Vasily Grossman, Nora Gal, and others.
Evgenia Aleksandrovna died on the 3d of October 2005 in Moscow, Russian Federation at the age of 93.