The cross of motherhood
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Reprint from the publication. SPb., 1904. The novel "Cross of Motherhood" describes the love story of a famous sculptor and a young girl - and this is a rather sincerely presented story of Nordman with Repin. Natalya Borisovna Nordman (Severova - a writer"s pseudonym) was born in 1863 in Helsingfors (Helsinki) in the family of Russian admiral of Swedish origin and Russian noblewoman, she was always proud of Finland and loved to call herself a "free Finland". She was baptized by her along the Lutheran rite, and Alexander II himself became her godmother, she received an excellent home education, knew several languages, was engaged in music, modeling, drawing. In 1884, at the age of twenty, she went to the United States for a year, where she worked on a farm. After returning from America, she played on an amateur stage in Moscow. She lived with her close friend, Princess M.K. Tenisheva. There, she plunged into the atmosphere of painting and music ", was carried away by" ballet dances, Italy, photography, dramatic art, psychophysiology and political economy. They met when Natalya Borisovna came to the workshop of Repin, accompanying Tenishev, the portrait of which was written by Ilya Efimovich. And then, in 1898, Nordman went to accompany him to Odessa when Repin went to Palestine. It soon turned out that Natalya Borisovna was expecting a child from him. Having lived for only two months, the girl died. Since that time, Nordman was the unknown wife Repin. She was a photographer, a vegetarian, an active figure in the field of emancipation of women. She died of consumption (the first signs of 1905) in 1914. The book was made according to the technology "Print on demand". Circulation 30 copies
Author:
Author:Nordman Natalya Borisovna
Cover:
Cover:Soft
Category:
- Category:Children's Book
- Category:Fiction
- Category:Historical Literature
- Category:Modern Literature
- Category:Poetry & Literature
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-4481-0411-4
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