Panaeva, Avdotia (c. 1819–1893)

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Panaeva, Avdotia (c. 1819–1893)

Russian memoirist and short-story writer. Name variations: Avdot'ia Iakovlevna Panáeva; (pseudonym) N. Stanitskii. Born c. 1819 in Russia; died 1893; m. Ivan Panaev (writer); m. Apollon Golovachev; children: (with Golovachev) Evdokiia Nagrodskaia (1866–1930, novelist).

Lived in an apartment with husband and his partner poet Nikolai Nekrasov, where they held Monday gatherings, which included Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, and others; helped edit liberal journal The Contemporary (1848–63); wrote Reminiscences (1899), about literary gatherings at home; with Nekrasov, under pseudonym N. Stanitskii, published popular novels, Three Countries of the World (1948–49) and The Dead Lake (1951); other works include stories, sketches, and autobiographical novella The Talnikov Family (1848).

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