Tyrkova Williams Biography

Born: November 13, G. was born in an ancient Novgorod landlord family of Tirkovs. Tyrkova studied at the St. Petersburg private gymnasium of Princess A. in the salon A. Davydova met with I. Goncharov, V. Garshin, A. Rubinstein, N. Shelgunov, S. S. The year before the end is excluded from the gymnasium for the “thin influence on the students”; A year later, she passed the exams for the course of the gymnasium exterior, and later passed the exams for the post of home teacher in the St.

Petersburg educational district. In connection with the deterioration of the financial situation of the family for three years, she lived with her mother in the ... clan estate Vergezhi from here the literary pseudonym "A. Vergezhsky" in the Novgorod province, was engaged in self -education. From the youth of Tirkova, the ideals of democracy, progress, and improvement of personality and society were close.

In Tyrkova, she entered the mathematical department of the highest female Bestuzhev courses, at the same time attended the capital's salons, where she met with N. Mikhailovsky, N. Annensky, A. at student parties participated in the discussion of the then fashionable theories of Marxism and Positivism. A participant in the demonstration at the funeral of N. Shelgunov married a brief engineer Arkady Nikolayevich Bormann, seven years later divorced.

Left alone with two children, the son of Arkady and daughter Sonya, earned a living by journalism. She was a witness and a participant in the discussions between the Marxists and the Narodniks, noted that the Narodniks “sentimentally idealized a man”, in Marxism, with sympathy, perceived criticism of the bourgeois life, but they adequ the dogmatic approach of Marxists to the situation in Russia “they did not know and did not consider it necessary to know”.

According to Tirkova’s observations, the preachers of Marxism, being captured by book theories, were least interested in the object of their activities - living people. In an interview with V. Lenin, in the city of unacceptable for Tirkova were their calls for conscious incurring class hatred. The value orientation of personality, free -thinking, humanism, embedded from childhood, predetermined its susceptibility to the ideas of liberalism.

With great attention, Tyrkov listened to the reasoning of P. Struve and M. Tugan-Baranovsky, who at that time gradually departed from orthodox Marxism and bowed towards liberalism. Prince D. Shakhovskaya had a special influence on the formation of the socio-political views of Tirkova, whom she met in the spring of G. at his invitation to the winter of G. Tyrkov in Yaroslavl, was published in the newspaper Northern Territory, which existed in the form of a joint-stock society, the main shareholders of which were the cadets.

I met with local “liberators”, went to Yasnaya Polyana twice, where she talked with L. in a year arrested for trying to smuggle copies of the magazine “Liberation” of Peter Struve. I fled to Sweden, from there to Germany. After the amnesty announced by the manifesto on October 17, she returned to Russia. She married British journalist Garold Williams. Member of the Cadet Party, member of the Central Committee of the Cadet Party.

As a journalist, she collaborated with the publication of the Dnieper Territory, later worked as an editor of such magazines and newspapers as Niva, Russian Thought and Bulletin of Europe. Published the novels “Life Way” and “Production”, a collection of stories, the book “Anna Pavlovna Philosopher and Her Time”, a collection of essays “Old Türkiye and Mladour”. In the year, after the February Revolution - the vowel of the Petrograd City Duma.

C in exile in England. In years, in the Riga newspaper "Today" published essays on the life of Russian emigration. He moves to America in the year. She died in Washington in January. Detailed biography.