Ekonomicheskiy Ukazatel magazine
Sofya Nikolaevna Goslavskaya
(Russian edition)
Russian edition
https://www.amazon.com/Vernadsky-Compositions-Vernadskaya-M-N-Sochineniya/dp/5912150011/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=vernadskaya&qid=1582476500&sr=8-2
2007
Maria Nikolaevna Vernadskaya was on December 27, 1831, in Saint Petersburg City, Russian Federation into a noble family. She was the daughter of Nikolai Petrovich Shigaev, who served as State Secretary of the State Council and Senator. Her sister, Sofya Shigaeva (Goslavskaya), was a writer.
Vernadskaya was given extensive home education.
Under the influence of her husband, Maria Nikolaevna began to study political economy. She translated a number of popular economic works from French, German, and English, including one of the works by J. Garnier.
Since 1857, Maria Nikolaevna helped her husband to publish and edit the Ekonomicheskiy Ukazatel magazine, in which she anonymously published a number of articles, which differed in a sensible view of things and an interesting presentation of thoughts and were a great success among readers. Among these publications were significant articles on female labor, of which Vernadskaya was one of the first to speak.
The bourgeois-apologetic aspect of Vernadskaya’s views was sharply criticized by N.G. Chernyshevsky in reviews of her translation of the popular book of the English writer J. Marcet John Hopkins's Notions on Political Economy (Moscow, 1856) and the fairy tale Hunger in Baghdad (Ekonomicheskiy Ukazatel, No. 1, 1857).
Maria Nikolaevna died of tuberculosis in 1860. After the death of his wife, I. Vernadsky collected her articles and in 1862 published a separate book entitled Collected Works of the late M.N. Vernadskaya, née Shigaeva.
(Russian edition)
2007Maria Nikolaevna noted that some Russian women see labor as a shameful occupation. She also refused to accept the excuses of mothers who did not want to tear themselves away from their children, and especially those women who led an idle lifestyle. She suggested that if women would be able to earn a living themselves, few would rush into marriage, which often brought only misfortune and lead to personal tragedies. In an easily understandable and often artistic form, Maria Nikolaevna helped the reader to become acquainted with the fundamentals of economic science, revealed the meaning of the division of labor, and the extraordinary possibilities of science and technology. In accordance with the concepts of the Manchester school in the political economy, the main slogan of Vernadskaya was freedom of economic activity and, in this regard, the requirement of individual freedom as a condition for social progress, intolerance of any kind of constraint and privilege.
In 1850, the 18-year-old Maria Nikolaevna married professor Ivan Vasilievich Vernadsky, who was 10 years older. The couple had one child, a son, Nikolai Ivanovich Vernadsky.
