Against: poet Julia Zhadovskaya and Kostroma

Poet Julia Valerianovna Zhadovskaya was born on June 29, 1824.

In the life of Julia Zhadovskaya everything was against her. She was born without a left hand, with only three fingers on her right. But schoolchildren who for many decades memorized her poem “My Niva, Niva, Golden Niva”, did not know this.

She began writing poetry when it was unusual for women. But Julia was brought up by Kostroma Anna Govodtseva, a poetess who ventured into poetic correspondence with Pushkin.

The girl’s love for the teacher of Perevlessky met the fierce resistance of her father. She began to trust her heartache with paper. Poems, and then prose were published in magazines, two poetry collections were published.

“Indeed, in these poems one cannot deny a kind of poetic talent. It is a pity that the source of inspiration for this talent is not life, but a dream, and that therefore it has nothing to do with life and is poor in poetry. This, however, comes out of Ms. Zhadovskaya’s relationship to society as a woman, critic Vissarion Belinsky remarked condescendingly.

After her death, brother Paul published a four-volume work of his sister. Today, feminists are ready to defend: the poet was not accepted just because she is a woman!

Julia was already forty when she found freedom and peace. Her husband was a family friend, Dr. Carl Seven. Together they settled in the Bui district of the Kostroma province, in the Tolstikovo estate. She didn't want to write anymore.

The house in Kostroma, where poetess Anna Gotovotseva and Julia Zhadovskaya lived, is included in the blue route of author's excursions."Kostroma at 15:15.".

According to the materials of the scientific consultant of the project “Kostroma at 15:15” candidate of cultural studies Larisa Sizintseva.