Yevdokiya Nagrodskaya

Yevdokiya Nagrodskaya (; 1866–1930), was a Russian novelist in fin-de-siècle Russia whose first novel was titled The Wrath of Dionysus. Her debut novel was published in 1910 and explored the theme of her perception of "sexual identity and gender roles" of men and women in Russia. It was very popular in pre-revolutionary Russia among the middle-class people and was controversial. The novel was so popular that it was reprinted 10 times and translated into French, Italian and German. It was also made into a silent movie with erotic content.

The Wrath of Dionysus was translated into English in 1997 at the initiative of Louise McReynolds, a professor of history, and Russian culture, at the University of Hawaii. It was published by Indiana University Press

Nagrodskaya died in 1930. In Libertinage in Russian Culture and Literature, Alexei Lalo stated that "[Nagródskaia] may have felt the need to represent the continuum of heterosexual and homosexual love and shifting gender identity more completely and insightfully than her contemporaries Zinovieva-Annibal or Verbitskaya did" and described the novel as "a more modern—and modernizing—literary phenomenon that many diverse researchers ... have taken it to be."

The Wrath of Dionysus was highly popular and became a bestseller. After its success, she published more novels such as The Bronze Door, The River of Times, and The White Colonnade.

The English edition of the novel was reviewed by the Midwest Book Review, which described it as an "outstanding edition," and by the Library Journal, who said that it was "highly recommended for collections of Slavic literature as well as popular fiction."