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Zoya Dmitrievna Bukharova was born on February 9 (January 28), 1876, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She was the daughter of diplomat Dmitry Nikolaevich Bukharov and singer Alexandra Viktorovna Bukharova (nee - Anichkova). Bukharova’s grandfather, Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharov, was a colleague of Mikhail Lermontov. She spent her childhood with her parents abroad, including Jerusalem in 1885-1888.
Zoya Bukharova spent her childhood with her parents abroad, including Jerusalem (1885-1888), where she was assigned to boarding school at a Catholic monastery. After the death of her father in 1889 she came to Petersburg and entered the Pavlovsk Institute. She did not finish it due to illness.
Since 1892 Zoya Dmitrievna published poems of a lyrical and philosophical nature in the journal Niva, North, World Illustration. In 1899, she got married and lived in the estate of Batino, the Porkhonek district of the Pskov Governorate, and after the divorce in 1902 she moved with her two children to Saint Petersburg and devoted herself entirely to literary and theatrical work.
Since 1903 Zoya Dmitrievna was constantly published in the journal Theater and Art (poems, reviews, translations were signed by Z.B.). She was associated with the Mobile Theater of Gaideburov, and promoted him in other periodicals. She published the book Poems, close to the poetics of modernism. At the same time, the intonations of Russian classical lyrics are felt in it, reminiscences from A.S. Pushkin, M.Y. Lermontov, F.I. Tyutchev, A.A. Fet are traced. These are poets who, according to Zoya Dmitrievna, have exerted a substantial influence on her literary development. Bukharova’s book was approved by critics.
In the 1900s Zoya Dmitrievna was also published in the newspaper Slovo, Journal of the Theater of the Literary and Art Society, and others. Bukharova’s poems published after 1912 in the newspaper Russia are imbued with religious and mystical moods. Apparently, she was familiar with A.A. Blok, who on February 11, 1919, sent her a copy of The Twelve. She wrote: "Block’s "The Twelve" turned my whole world view up to the foundation ... Nevertheless, Christian and even church mysticism remained foremost in my poetry, despite my definite statement from the first to the present day".
(d. 1889)
(d. 1861)
