Голгофа женщины

by V.I. Kryzhanovskaya, В.И. Крыжановская

Романы популярной, писательницы В.И.Крыжановской в начале нашего века были хорошо известны во многих странах. Сейчас эти увлекательные, полные драматизма произведения вновь, возвращаются к читателю.
Героиня романа "Голгофа женщины" становится жертвой беспутного мужа. Но ее страдания вознаграждаются возвращением к счастливой жизни и семье.
"Болотный цветок" - история жизни девушки, принесенной в жертву беспутству и легкомыслию. Преодолев религиозный фанатизм, жестокость и насилие, героиня романа обретает покой и счастье в любви.

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First published April 28, 2014

About the author

Vera Ivanovna Kryzhanovskaya [or Kryzhanovskaia] (2/14 June 1857 - 29 December 1924) was a Russian novelist. She used the pseudonym John Wilmot Rochester.

Kryzhanovskaya was born to an old Tambov regional family. Her father, Maj.Gen.Ivan Antonovich Kryzhanovsky had married the daughter of a pharmacist. Her father died when she was 14 and the following year she gained a scholarship to the Catherine Institute in St Petersburg, where she studied at public expense until graduating in 1877. She married the famous spiritualist Sergei Valerianovich Semenov who was appointed to the Imperial Chancellery (1894), and then as Chamberlain in 1904. During the 1880s and 1890s they lived in Western Europe.

Kryzhanovskaya had been interested in the occult and ancient history from childhood and was known to perform as a medium. In the tradition of many spiritualists, she claimed her novels were motivated by her spirit guide, which she said was the English poet John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. She took on the nickname "Rochester".

Kryzhanovskaya's works were written in French and then translated into Russian.

Following the Russian Revolution, she left for Estonia, but after two years working in a mill her health was broken. She died on 29 December 1924 and was buried in the Alexander Nevsky Cemetery in Tallinn.