Background
Sofya Mikhailovna Butkevich (nee Anichkova) was born in the early 1830s in the noble family.
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Sofya Mikhailovna Butkevich
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S. Butashevskaya
Career
In 1854, Sofya Mikhailovna met the exiled Polish poet E. Zheligovsky (pseudonym Antonii Sova), known in the circle of Russian revolutionary-minded writers. In 1860, she moves to Saint Petersburg and lives in the family of Zheligovsky's friend, publicist-ukrainophile V.M. Belozersky.
In the summer of 1861, she came to Paris. In a letter to B. Zalessky (1861), Zheligovsky reports that she works hard, thinks seriously to become a writer: "Some passages were printed in the "Bell" with great praise from the publisher." At the end of 1861, Sofya Mikhailovna was included in the Paris environment of I.S. Turgenev. Under the impression of conversations with him, she wrote a book in which, on behalf of a teenager, she told about the world of things and nature, about the rudiments of the concepts of nobility, honor, and love for one's neighbor.
Despite the touch of sentimentality in the image of human relations, the book of Butkevich Girl's diary" (Saint Petersburg) was generally successful, although it attracted mixed criticism.
From 1862 until Zheligovsky's death (1864), Sofya Mikhailovna lived in Geneva and wrote from there to Turgenev.
Connections
Sofya Mikhailovna was the wife of a military civil engineer L. S. Butkevich, who served in Ufa.
