About Varvara Annenkova
Lived 1795 – 1870 (aged 74–75). Varvara Annenkova was a Russian poet and writer.
Varvara Nikolaevna Annenkova (; 1795 in Nizhny Novgorod – 1866) was a Russian poet and member of the nobility of Nizhny Novgorod. Her work was influenced by close friend and mentor, poet Mikhail Lermontov.
Family Born into the wealthy Annenkov family, daughter of Colonel Nicholas Nikanorovich Annenkov (1764–1839), she was the sister of General Nicholas Annenkov and the poet Ivan Annenkov (1796–1829) and also a cousin of Ivan Annenkov, who was exiled to Siberia for his role in the Decembrist Uprising of 1825.
Selected works For the Chosen Few, 1844 Poems, 1854–56 "Wonder-Yonder", 1866 "Charlotte Corday", 1866
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Russian poet; member nobility of Nizhny Novgorod (1795–1870)
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Varvara Annenkova was born in 1795.
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Varvara Annenkova died in 1870.
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