Background
Maria Andreevna Beketova was born on January, 24 (O.S. January, 12) 1862 in Saint Petersburg in the family of a scientist-botanist and organizer of science, professor Andrei Nikolaevich Beketov.
Vasileostrovskaya female gymnasium
Maria Andreevna Beketova was born on January, 24 (O.S. January, 12) 1862 in Saint Petersburg in the family of a scientist-botanist and organizer of science, professor Andrei Nikolaevich Beketov.
Maria Andreevna graduated from the Vasileostrovskaya female gymnasium with a silver medal in 1879. She studied music and tried herself in composition.
Under the influence of Tolstoy’s doctrine, in the 1880s entered the circle of A.M. Kalmykova. Maria Andreevna prepared several small books for publication. They were included in the series "Zhizn' prezhde i teper" and "Sily prirody i trud cheloveka", which were published by A.M. Kalmykova. She collaborated with the children's magazines "Rodnik" and "The Sun" and "Reading School".
For the publisher I.D. Sytin, Maria Andreevna reproduces the novels by Jules Verne "The Adventures of Captain Hatteras" (1888, 1890), Daniel Defoe’s "The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" (1896).
The first translation experiment of Maria Andreevna – the story of the Polish writer Boleslav Prus "Poet and Life" was published in 1882 by the journal "Vestnik Yevropy". In the future, she translated the stories of Prus, Orzeszko, Maria Konopnitskaya, Maria Rodzevich, Stanislav Pshibyshevsky and, Stefan Zheromsky.
In the Soviet years, Maria Andreevna published several small children's books - "Your Book" (1925), "Fly" (1928), "Burenushka" (1929), "Egorka" (1929).
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