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

Разпаленото му въображение караше нежните й одежди да треперят от подухването на нощния ветрец, разкошната й руса коса да се развява, а прелестните й кадифени очи да му се усмихват.

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1907

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.

Reviews

[DNN · Rating 2 out of 5]

Не е най-вълнуващата книга, която съм чела. Леко четиво, което ме пренесе в далечни времена.