KOLTONOVSKAYA Elena

She was born in 1871.
She graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology Bestuzhev courses. Since 1899 places a critical article in the "Education", "Speeches", "Russian Thought", "News of Europe" and others. Some of the articles collected in her book "New Life" (St. Petersburg, 1910), "Critical Essays" (St. Petersburg, 1891) and "feminine silhouette" (St. Petersburg, 1912). In his usually small, always sincere, heartfelt sketches Koltonovskaya adjacent to the criticism of aesthetic and psychological, with a certain gravity to Impressionism, but not in its extreme forms. The impression for her only point of departure; psychological analysis should be based on solid, . historical and literary foundations and be objective as possible; writers' individuality - the most valuable, . but understanding it is only possible through analysis of historical environmental conditions and public sentiment.,