Avdotia Glinka

Avdotia Pavlovna Glinka , (; 1795–1863) was a Russian spiritual writer, poet and translator. She was married to writer and mystic Fyodor Glinka. Their grand-daughter was the occultist anti-semite Yuliana Glinka.

Life Avdotia Pavlovna Golenishtchev-Kutuzo was born on July 7, 1795 in Saint Petersburg. She was home-educated and lived in the Kuznetsovo estate in Bezhetsky District, Tver Oblast.

In 1859 Glinka addressed a letter to Alexander Herzen, criticizing what she called a propaganda of "chaos and destruction", and calling for a return to Russian Orthodoxy. Herzen published a response, 'Answer to a Russian Lady', in the newspaper Kolokol.

Glinka died on July 26, 1863 in Tver.

Works Pesnia o kolokole [Song of the Bell], translation of Schiller's Das Lied von der Glocke, 1832. Zhizn' presviatoi devy [The Life of the Most Holy Virgin], 1840. In verse, sixteen editions up to 1915. Gibel' ot pustogo chvanstva [The Ruin of Useless Arrogance], 1852. Tol'ko tri nedeli [Only Three Weeks], 1851. Grafinia Polina, [Countess Polina], 1856. Leonid Stepanovich and Liudmilla Sergeeva, 1856. Katia, 1858. Stikhotvoreniia Shillera. Zum Dichters 100 Jahrigem Geburtsfeste, 1859.