Iya Dmitrieva biography
She was born in the village of Voronin Balashovsky district of the Saratov province in the family of a serf, the controller of the estate E. She independently learned to literacy and prepared for admission to the Tambov female gymnasium in the city in Tambov met the circles of revolutionary youth. At the end of the gymnasium, she served one winter as a teacher in Sloboda Peschanka Balashovsky district and from here wrote correspondence and small stories in Saratov newspapers.
In one of the publications, she described the tricks and unrighteous acts of the volost clerk, and he tried to survive Dmitriev from the sandstone. In the city, the next story “Akhmetkin’s wife” appeared in the journal “Russian wealth”. Dmitrieva wrote that thanks to this story, she met the writer N. Hvoshchinskaya: "Acquaintance with her left a deep mark in my soul, and I owe many this extraordinary woman and a wonderful writer." Having received the title of doctor, at the end of Dmitrieva moved to Moscow to improve in obstetrics.
Unable to get a doctor there, she was engaged in literary work, was published in the magazines "Bulletin of Europe", "Russian Thought", etc. In the year, the story "Volunteer", built on the impressions made by the author from participation in a mug of youth. Around G., there were Petersburg and Moscow writers, a local progressive intelligentsia, public readings and evenings were held, writers, journalists, etc.
in - GG often visited the house. Dmitrieva worked as a zemstvo doctor for an epidemic of cholera in the Nizhnedevitsky of the Voronezh province. There, she finished work on the works “Spring Illusions” and “Gomochka”, the story was very popular among progressive youth. She described her observations during the wandering in the Zadonsky district in the essay “In the villages.
From the notes of the doctor ”, practicing medical activities, Dmitrieva did not cease to engage in literary work. Over the years of life, many of her best works have been created in Voronezh. The theme of the peasant intelligentsia was displayed in the novel “Mityukha-Teach” in the beginning of the xg. Dmitrieva went abroad twice. There, she wrote two agitation and propaganda brochures “For faith, Tsar and Fatherland” under the pseudonym “Ivan the Free” and “Lipochka-Popovna” under the pseudonym “Fr.
John Novokreshchensky. " Both books were illegally delivered to Russia and had a lot of walking among the people. It was also regularly published in the local press, actively printed in the newspaper Voronezh Word. She had a gift from a publicist-satirist. Dmitrieva wrote: “The echo of life” of the drummer enjoyed success, they read them, they waited, and not a single story, not a single novel caused as much conversation as these feuilletons, so that I could only regret that I did not become a topical feuilletonist instead of being a fiction writer in Voronezh and her husband had wide acquaintances with administrative-elaborated and dedicated and voted and vyed.
Local public figures of various political directions participated in literary and political meetings. Dmitrieva conducted active cultural and educational work. With the city of Valentina Iovovna organized lectures on literary topics with the invitation of eminent metropolitan specialists. On her initiative, “literary and vocal evenings” were held, which dedicated to the memory of writers V.
Garshina, A. Koltsov, N. Nekrasov, I. Nikitin, A. Ostrovsky, I. Turgenev, as well as in favor of libraries, etc. Lasunsky in the essay “In the wake of Memoirov V. Dmitrieva”, wrote: “V. Dmitrieva was the soul of literary evenings. Glory about them penetrated far beyond Voronezh; The educational organizations of Rostov-on-Don, Novocherkassk, Taganrog invite the writer to visit Dmitriev by a natural prose writer, Dmitrieva sometimes acted as a poet.
At the evening dedicated to the fly from the day of the death of I. Nikitin, where up to a thousand people were present, the theater’s entrepreneur V. Nikulin with Paphos was lambered by Dmitrieva’s poem “At the Monument to Nikitin”, which was successful with the public. Dmitrieva in Voronezh also wrote about this period of his life in the G. Voronezh realities devoted to many pages in the memoirs of the writer “it was like that.
The path of my life ”in Voronezh D. Dmitrieva spent more than a quarter century. From her young age, she conducted diary entries, used the impressions and facts of her personal life when working on fiction. Many stories, novels and novels by Dmitrieva enjoyed outstanding fame in –e. XIX and at the beginning of the XX centuries. Her books were read by binge and reprinted repeatedly.
To G., according to literary fertility, the critic compared Dmitriev with N. Hvoshchinskaya and Eliza Ozushko. Collections of stories and stories by Dmitrieva were published in,,,, in 3 volumes, the chosen works of the writer “Tale. Raszazov ”published in Voronezh, O. Dmitriev’s preface was also an original children's writer. Children's publications were unusual popular. These are stories: “Dimka”, “Hospital Watchman of the Hatzok”, “Baby and Bug” - awarded the Frebel Prize and withstood more than 20 publications.The story “Mom in the War” by Rostov-on-Don, about the ascetics of the time of the Russo-Turkish war, was widely fame-GG.
Children's stories were collected in the book of Dmitrieva: “Goryun” and other stories for children, ”,,; “Vegetable color”, “Vanka-Besprazorny Ivan Kravets”, “How Filyushka visited the city”, “Dunno”, “wolf” and others. Dmitrieva writer of the old realistic school. Criticism constantly noted the life -affirming nature of the realism of the writer, her deep faith in the forces of the people.
Vigor and bright idealism go through a bright thread through the works of Dmitrieva. All her heroes have a rich margin of cheerfulness, everyone “seeks a different life”, not content with gray reality. In the stories and stories of the x. Dmitrieva described mainly the life of the village and its customs. Subsequently, she was one of the first in Russian literature, turned to the depiction of the life of the workers “White Wings”, “Main - Vira”, “In a glorious post” and others.
The life of a provincial intelligentsia was described in detail in the story of “clouds” at the end of G. Dmitriev from Voronezh, she moved to Sochi, where they had a small house with her husband, served in the Statburo, gave lectures, gave lectures, lectures, lectures, lectures, lectures, lectures. She worked as an instructor in the artistic-agitation department, attended classes of a literary circle.
I wrote brochures on relevant topics. During this period, more than 15 of her books are published. I consider myself very happy: on my life path, I met so many remarkably good people that one memory of them in the most difficult moments of my life supports me with the vigor of the spirit in me, and no hardships, no failures can shake the faith in the lactic house of Valentina Dmitrieva received many eminent guests: composer S.
Rakhmaninov, writers A. Serafimovich, I. Shmelev, V. She was on friendly relations with the writer N. Ostrovsky, E. Mayakova - the poetess and wife of the artist N. Maykov, who opened the first at the resort of the public library and reading room. Dmitrieva conducted an extensive correspondence with relatives, writers, friends. Letters from the GG. During the Great Patriotic War, Dmitriev, despite the advanced age, conducted chef work in hospitals.
She died in February, the house in Sochi bequeathed to the Writers' Union. A memorial plaque is installed on the house, the name of Dmitrieva is one of the Sochi streets. Materials related to the life and work of V.