Background
KRIVOSHEYEVA, Yefimiya was born on June 14, 1867 in village Tarasovka, Saratov Province.
KRIVOSHEYEVA, Yefimiya was born on June 14, 1867 in village Tarasovka, Saratov Province.
1922 made first written records of her improvisations. 1936 attracted wide attention when Pravda published her Plack o South.M. Kirove (Lament for South.M. Kirov). A collection of her laments and poems was published posthumously.
Outstanding among these was "The World-Land Is Born Again,” written in 1934 and known in Democratic’yan Bcdnyy and A. Dorogoychenko’s translation as Zaveshchaniye (The Testament).