Anna Anichkova

Anna Mitrofanovna Anichkova (1868/1869 – 1935) was a Russian writer and translator who published under the pseudonym Ivan Strannik. She wrote fiction in both French and Russian.^[1]

Anna Anichkova
Born	1868/1869 Caucasus
Died	1935
Nationality	Russian
Occupation(s)	Writer and translator

Life

Anna Mitrofanovna Avinova was born in the Caucasus. Some sources give 1868 as her year of birth,^[2] and others 1869.^[1][3] She married the literary critic Evgeny Anichkov and moved to Paris in the late 1890s, establishing a literary salon there which attracted writers like Anatole France and Vlacheslav Ivanov. She wrote novels in French, and contributed to Revue de Paris, Revue Bleu and Figaro.^[4]

In 1909 the couple returned to Russia, and she began writing short fiction for the 'thick periodicals' there. After the Russian Revolution in 1917 she concentrated on translation rather than fiction.^[4]

Works

Novels

• ИНГИЛЬДА: ИСТОРИЧЕСКИЙ РОМАН ТРИНАДЦАТАГО СТОЛ'ЬТШ [Ringil'da: A historical novel of the thirteenth century] (in Russian). 1900.
• L'appel de l'eau [The Call of Water] (in French). Paris: Société du Mercure de France. 1902.
• La statue ensevelie [The Buried Statue] (in French). Paris: Calmann-Lévy. 1902.
• L'ombre de la maison [The Shadow of the House] (in French). Paris: Calmann-Lévy. 1904.
• Les nuages [The Clouds] (in French). Paris: Calmann-Lévy. 1905.

Others

• (trans.) Maxim Gorky. Les Vagabonds. Paris: Mercure de France.
• (trans.) Maxim Gorky (1902). Twenty-six and one: and other stories from the Vagabond series. New York: J.F. Taylor & Co.
• La pensée russe contemporaine [Contemporary Russian Thought] (in French). Paris: A. Colin. 1903.
• Les mages sans étoile: ames russes [Magi without a star: Russian souls] (in French). Paris: Calmann-Lévy. 1906.