Elizaveta Polonskaya

Elizaveta Grigorevna Polonskaya , born Movshenson , was a Russian Jewish poet, translator, and journalist, the only female member of the Serapion Brothers.

Elizaveta Movshenson was born in Warsaw her father, Grigory Lvovich Movshenson, was an engineer who had graduated with high honors from the Riga Polytechnical Institute and her mother, Charlotta Ilinichna , came from a large Jewish merchant family in Biaystok. Her familys first language was Russian, but Liza was also taught French, German, Italian, and English. Because of her fathers status, he was granted the right to live outside the Pale of Settlement, and the family moved quite often. Just after Lizas birth, they moved to d, where she spent most of her childhood. Movshenson was formally educated at the womens gymnasium where she became interested in politics. Movshenson joined secret groups studying Belinsky and political economy. However, she also studied Judaism with a rabbi, and not only the stories themselves but also the biblical language made a deep impression on her her solemn, rhetorical verse is often marked by Slavonicisms.

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