Petersburg defeated me

About Kuzmina-Karavaev, known in the world as Mother Maria, you can write the books of all genres: a political detective, a love romance, an edification story for youth, the philosophical treatise, the life of the holy ... and in every book the path of Mother Mary will be unique. So rich, saturated, diverse, light and tragic was her life, which began December 1891 in a cozy Riga apartment and ended in the furnaces of the concentration camp Ravensbrück on March 31, 1945. But the fate of Elizabeth Yuryevna Kuzmin-Karavaeva can be understood only by plunging into the St. Petersburg period of her life, where her childhood and young man crossed with many well-known, and sometimes famous personalities, the icon figures of the 20th century. They helped to take her as a poet, artist, a public figure