Maria Nikitichna Ryzhkina

Background

Maria Nikitichna Ryzhkina was born on February 19, 1898 in Saint Petersburg, in the family of a Saint Petersburg homeowner.

Education

In 1906, Maria Nikitichna entered the female gymnasium of P. A. Makarova, which she graduated in 1915. In the same year she entered the Women's Polytechnic Institute, but in 1917 she transferred to the history department of Petrograd University (now Saint Petersburg State University). After the expropriation of her family’s property in 1918, she was forced to work as an office clerk at the Housing Administration and left the university. In 1924-1925 she studied at the Higher Courses of Library Science at the M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin State Public Library.

Career

Maria Nikitichna was a participant in a studio of literary translation under the direction of M.L. Lozinsky (since 1920), literary secretary of Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky (1920-1922). Worked in the acquisition department of the State Public Library named after M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, member of its Academic Council (since 1929).

She is the author of children's books "The Mouse and the Moon" (under the pseudonym Pambe; Moscow; Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg), 1924, 1925; together with A. Onoshkovich). She was unreasonably repressed (1932), served a link in the cities of the Central Black Earth Region: Kursk, Zadonsk (in the last city she worked as a draftswoman of the district land department since May 1933). In 1935 she followed her husband V.O. Petersen to exile in Karaganda. Later Maria Nikitichna lived in Chelyabinsk, the city of Pushkin, Leningrad Region, Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg region, Saint Petersburg). During World War II, she was evacuated from Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), came to the Germans, was sent to Germany, where she stayed forever.

Membership

• Academic Council of the State Public Library named after M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin , Russian Federation

  1929

Connections

Spouse:

V.O. Petersen