Wojnich biography of the writer

Voynich E. Wojnich Ethel Lilian was friends with S. in lived in Russia. She was familiar with F. Engels, G. with lived in New York. Acted as a translator of Russian literature and several poems by T. Shevchenko into English. The best work of Voinich is the revolutionary novel "Disde", Rus. The novel has become in Russia one of the favorite books of youth; Repeatedly used as a literary basis of performances, films, operas.

The revolutionary pathos, which permeates the novel “Disde”, the best book of War, is also felt in some of its other works; The author’s courage in choosing “unpleasant” and acute topics was the reason for the conspiracy of the silence of the literary critics of Europe around the name of the writer. Ethel Lilian did not know her father. He died when she was only six months old.

His name, as a very large scientist, is included in the British encyclopedia. Her mother, Mary Everest, the daughter of a professor of Greek, who helped Buly a lot in work and left after his death interesting memories of her husband. By the way, the surname Everest is also quite famous. The highest peak of our planet, located in the Himalayas, between Nepal and Tibet - Everest or Mount Everest, is named so in honor of Uncle Ethel Lilian, George Everest, who in the middle of the century headed the English topographic management, and never visited Nepal, or Tibet and did not see his famous "namesake".

Ethel’s orphan childhood was not easy, all the meager funds left for five little girls left the remaining mothers after the death of George. Mary Bul, in order to feed them, gave mathematics lessons, wrote articles in newspapers and magazines. When Ethel was eight years old, she was seriously ill, but her mother could not provide the girl with a good care and preferred to send her to her father’s brother, who worked as a manager at the mine.

This gloomy, fanatically religious man sacredly observed the Puritan British traditions in raising children. In the year, having received a small inheritance, Ethel graduated from the conservatory in Berlin, but her hand prevented her from becoming a musician. Simultaneously with teaching music, she listened to lectures on Slavic studies at the University of Berlin. In her youth, she became close to political emigrants who were refuge in London.

Among them were Russian and Polish revolutionaries. The romance of the revolutionary struggle in those days was the most fashionable hobby of the intelligentsia. As a sign of mourning for the regrettable and permissible structure of the world, Ethel Lilian dresses only in black. At the end of the city of Stepnyak-Kravchinsky, the author of the book "Underground Russia".

Acquaintance with the book prompted her to go to this mysterious country in order to see the struggle of the people with an autocracy with her own eyes. In the spring of G. in St. Petersburg, she immediately fell surrounded by revolutionary youth. The future writer became a witness to the terrorist actions of the "people's will" and its defeat. Wanting to better know the Russian reality, she agreed to take the governess of the governess in the E.

Venevitinova family in the Novozhivotinnaya estate. Where, from May to August in her own words, Ethel Lilian and her pupils could not stand each other. In the summer of G. Ethel Lilian returned to his homeland, where she took part in the created S. Kravchinsky "Society of Friends of Russian Freedom", worked in the editorial office of the emigrant magazine "Free Russia" and in the Fund of Free Russian Press.