Olga Andreevna Golokhvastova was born at the beginning of the 1840s in Moscow City, Russian Federation. Olga was considered being the illegitimate daughter of E. Rostopchina and A. Karamzin. Had the last name Andreevskaya, before her marriage.
Olga Andreevna was brought up in Switzerland in the family of a Geneva priest.
Golokhvastova's first story For myself and for many (1869) was described in the Modern Chronicle (1870) as a creation which showed the position of a woman of the "high society" interestingly, but a little flaccid and prolonged. She became famous for the drama Whose Truth?. When the play was staged, critics reproached it for t the weakness of psychological reasons.
In Yasnaya Polyana Olga read her drama in verses Two Brides about N. Dolgorukova, who followed her husband into exile. But L. Tolstoy with N. Strakhov found it artificial. She was the author of Provincial Overview in the newspaper Rus.
Olga Andreevna was an experienced playwright and a passionate athlete who loved to play croquet.
Physical Characteristics: According to the memoirist N. Shatilov, Olga was very beautiful, very tall, well-built, with a good complexion, had beautiful dark brown eyes and dark magnificent hair.
Quotes from others about the person
N. Shatilov: "She was the personification of a Russian beauty."
Olga Andreevna was married to P. Golokhvastov in 1863.
