Elizaveta Akhmatova

Elizaveta Nikolayevna Akhmatova writing as Leila (; 2 December 1820 – 12 April 1904) was a Russian writer, publisher and translator who published translations of English and French writers into Russian.

Life Akhmatova was born in Nachalovo, Astrakhan Governorate in 1820 where she showed an early aptitude for languages. She would read books written in French and translate them as she read aloud to her mother in Russian. She received a good education despite her father dying when she was five. although one source says thirty. There were 344 different issues and it included the work of Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, George Sand, Émile Zola and Anthony Trollope. She also created publications for younger readers but these had shorter lives.