Lidia Veselitskaya

Lidia Ivanovna Veselitskaya , March 17, 1857 February 23, 1936 was a Russian novelist, short story writer, memoirist, and translator who used the pseudonym V. Mikulich.

Veselitskaya was born in 1857 into a military family in Yegoryevsk. Her father was an instructor of the Alexander Cadet Corps. She was educated at the Pavlovsk Institute, where she studied teaching, graduating in 1874. She then enrolled in the Saint Petersburg pedagogical courses, graduating in 1876. She married a Russian Army officer soon after graduating. Her first literary efforts were simple tales for young people, including In the Family and In the School, Family Evenings, and Of Childrens Reading.

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