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Lidia Charskaya


Born
in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
January 31, 1875

Died
March 18, 1938

Genre
Young Adult, Classics


Lidia Alekseyevna Charskaya (Russian: Лидия Алексеевна Чарская) was a Russian writer and actress. Charskaya was her pseudonym; her real last name was Churilova.

Charskaya worked as an actress at the Alexandrinsky Theatre from 1898 to 1924. From 1901 to 1916 she published about eighty books, several of which became bestsellers. Her most popular work was the novel Princess Dzhavakha (1903).[1] In the 1940s, when Boris Pasternak was writing his novel Doctor Zhivago, he said that he was "writing almost like Charskaya", because he wanted to be accessible and dreamed that his prose would be gulped down "even by a seamstress, even by a dishwasher."

Her novels fall into four general categories: stories that take place in boarding schools for elite gi ...more

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Average rating: 4.21 · 897 ratings · 42 reviews · 231 distinct works • Similar authors
Записки институтки
4.26 avg rating — 164 ratings — 16 editions
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Little Princess Nina: The S...
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4.18 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 1903 — 13 editions
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Записки маленькой гимназистки
4.43 avg rating — 91 ratings — 3 editions
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Сибирочка
4.35 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 1910 — 7 editions
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Сећање једне девојчице [Seć...
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Записки сиротки
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4.31 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1907 — 8 editions
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Люда Влассовская
4.25 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions
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Сибирочка. Княжна Джаваха
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Вторая Нина
3.96 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions
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Сказки голубой феи
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Little Princess Nina: The S... The Tartar Princess
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“тупом”
― Lidia Charskaya, Записки институтки
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“Иконина”
― Lidia Charskaya, Записки маленькой гимназистки
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“исповедоваться, — звонко крикнула”
― Lidia Charskaya, Записки институтки
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