Few of the current readers know the name of Valentina Iovovna Dmitrieva, a Russian writer who wrote and published prose, poetry, journalism, and memoirs. And at the beginning of the twentieth century, she was known among a wide range of Russian intelligentsia.
Biography
Valentina Iovovna was born in a small village in the Saratov province in 1859. Her father was a serf, but he owned a letter and served as the manager of the estate of Count Naryshkin. The Dmitriyev family was quite wealthy, and Valentina could provide a decent education. However, she herself prepared for the exams and entered the Tambov girls' gymnasium, and she stepped over three classes at once.
In the gymnasium, she met revolutionary youth, entered various circles.
Career
In 1877, Dmitrieva graduated from high school and went to work as a teacher in Peschanskaya Sloboda in the Saratov province. After living there for the school year, she left a noticeable mark in the cultural life of the province: she wrote short stories and notes in the newspapers of Saratov, and often they were critical and satirical. The local authorities did not like this, and they tried in every possible way to survive the Sandy teacher from the village.
However, she herself was not going to stay there, because she had become a student of the Higher Medical Courses in St. Petersburg.
She studied as a doctor and did not stop writing: she sent stories and stories to capital magazines, and they printed them, because even then it was clear that Dmitrieva had her own style, original syllable, and a clear description of the events.
The first story published was "Like, But Not Mind", and then printed "Akhmetkin's wife" and others.
The young writer was noticed by the famous writer Nadezhda Dmitrievna Khvoshchinskaya and wanted to get to know her. She warmly communicated with Valentina Dmitrievna, instructed and taught her, because she was not a professional writer. And later in her memoirs Dmitrieva wrote that she was grateful to many of this extraordinary woman.
In 1886, the writer moved to Moscow and took an active part in the protest movement. For this, she was sent to Tver without the right to reside in the capital.
After some time, Dmitrieva got a job in the city of Nizhnedevitsk, Voronezh province. There were published her works "Spring Illusions" and "Gomochka" (1894). They were read and passed from hand to hand by all the advanced young people.
She was often sent to the centers of epidemics of the most dangerous infectious diseases, and she described all her experiences in her essays. So, in 1896, she published an essay "In the villages. From the doctor’s notes." She had a lot of work, but also had a penchant for writing. During her tenure as a doctor, her most famous works were written, some of which were even published illegally.
Dmitrieva described the life of different sectors of society: peasants, rural intelligentsia, workers. She was worried about the situation of the people, and in 1900 she finished her novel “Chervonny Khutor”, which was published in one of the literary almanacs. The novel raised important issues of that era.
At the beginning of the nineteen hundred years, she went abroad, and there she published propaganda books "For Faith, Tsar, and Fatherland" and "Lipochka-Popovna." She wrote them under different names. Both publications were illegally transported to Russia, and all the advanced people of that time were read by them there.
