Anastasiya Verbitskaya

Anastasiya Alekseyevna Verbitskaya , , was a Russian novelist, playwright, screenplay writer, publisher and feminist.

Verbitskaya was born in Voronezh, where her father was a professional military serviceman, and her mother was an amateur actress. In the mid1870s Verbitskaya attended a boarding school, the Elizavetinsky Womens Institute in Moscow. In 1879 she entered the Moscow Conservatory to study singing, leaving after two years to take a job as a music teacher at her former boarding school. In 1882 she married Alexey Verbitsky, an engineer, with whom she had three sons.

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