Jan 3, 2010
Katia | Katia
At a glance:
- Author: Martha Edith von Almedingen
- First Published: 1966
- Time of Work: 1834–1842
- Setting: Tver and Kursk, Russia, and the Ukraine
- Principal Characters: Catherine Almedingen, Sophie, Uncle Nicholas Mirkov, Aunt Marie Mirkov, Nina Mirkov, Volodia Mirkov, Kolia Mirkov, Nadia
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Memory, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Autobiography, Upper classes, Tragedy, Loneliness, Biography, Russia or Russian people
- Locales: Russia, Ukraine
Form and Content
Written as a first-person narrative, Katia tells the story
of a little Russian girl of an upper-class family, from the death of
her mother in 1834 when she was five until 1842, when she entered the
Catherine Nobility Institute in Moscow. Although it is often
classified as fiction, E. M. Almedingen’s book is based on the
autobiographical work Istoryya malen’koy dyevochki (1874;
the story of a little girl), one of the classic children’s books
of Russia that was written by Almedingen’s great-aunt, Catherine
Almedingen.
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