Mirra Lokhvitskaya, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetMirra Lokhvitskaya
Russian poet
Date of Birth: 19-Nov-1869
Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg
Date of Death: 27-Aug-1905
Profession: writer, poet
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Mirra Lokhvitskaya
- Mirra Lokhvitskaya (Russian: ??´??? ??´???????; born Maria Alexandrovna Lokhvitskaya – Russian: ????´? ??????´??????? ??´???????; November 19, 1869 – August 27, 1905) was a Russian poet who rose to fame in the late 1890s.
- In her lifetime she published five books of poetry, the first and the last of which received the prestigious Pushkin Prize.
- Due to the erotic sensuality of her works, Lokhvitskaya was regarded as the "Russian Sappho" by her contemporaries, which did not correspond with her conservative life style of dedicated wife and mother of five sons.
- Forgotten in Soviet times, in the late 20th century Lokhvitskaya's legacy was reassessed and she came to be regarded as one of the most original and influential voices of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry and the first in the line of modern Russian women poets who paved the way for Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva.
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