Letkov Ekaterina Pavlovna

Born in 1856, education received at the University for Women VI. Guerrier. She made her debut as belletristka in Russian Thought "1881. Later her works were published, mostly in the "Russian Wealth"; out separately in 4 volumes. Many worked in the Relief Society University for Women "and in the literary fund, member of the committee which is currently. Features Letkova as a writer - calmness, restraint, affect and manner of writing, and in the interpretation of the plot. It is free from bias, eccentricity and sentimentality. Women's lives and women's psychology in the works Letkova occupy a rather large place, but do not absorb it fully. Topics her mostly psychological: she wondered, for example, the harmonization objectives of the social nature of personal happiness. It is suitable to the subject of a peculiar, even the unused side, even when the subject is not a new one, the stories leave the impression of freshness Letkova. In a number of sketches, it depicts the fate of young people jammed needs in a close circle miserable vegetating (for example, the story of "Rest"). In other works it appears a number of broken-Populists, . conscious, . that life was "wasted" (especially interesting in this regard "ragged letters"), but lighted and the positive side of populism, . his first period (the mother of the heroine in the novel "swell", . "Eccentric" and others),
. Full penetration of the ideas of populism in Letkova not felt; soon noticed some protest against the excesses of, . among other things - in the ease, . which are represented by the representatives of other "directions" (individualist Lviv in "dead swell and Nadia in the story" guilty ").,