Mirra Lohvitskaya was born in St. Petersburg in the family of a prominent lawyer, a brilliant speaker, the law professor. Sister Hope Taffy. Was educated at home, then he studied at the Moscow Institute of Alexander. In 1892 she married the architect E. E. Zhibera; marriage was to large. For a time they lived in Tikhvin and Yaroslavl, and then again in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Noncoincidence her everyday appearance and way of lyrical "bacchante" wrote Bunin: "... a big homebody, oriental lazy." Name M. Lokhvitskaya on the literary map of Russian poetry turn of the century closest to K. Balmont; they were connected and personal relationship ( "Lionel" of her poems). Balmont dedicated to her his best collection of "Let the Sun" (1903). Lokhvitskaya first poetry collection appeared in 1896, for him, she was awarded the Pushkin Prize of the Academy of Sciences; just when life came five editions of her "Poems" (last in 1904).
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