Nazáreva, Kapitolina Valerianovna (1847–1900)

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Nazáreva, Kapitolina Valerianovna (1847–1900)

Russian novelist and playwright. Name variations: Kapitolina Valerianovna Nazareva. Born 1847 in St. Petersburg, Russia; died 1900.

Published sketches and stories in magazines and journals in St. Petersburg; wrote over 20 novels, dealing with variety of themes and characters, and plays that were staged in Moscow in 1890s; also wrote crime novels, including In the Grip of Poverty (1885).

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