Bogdanovich (Myakota) Maria Afanasyevna
(1869-1896), mother of poet Maxim Bogdanovich and wife of ethnographer A.E.Bogdanovich (1862-1940).
Maxim's mother is Maria Afanasyevna (1869 − 1896), Myakota by father, and Malevich by mother, Tatiana Osipovna. Her father was a minor official (provincial secretary), served as a caretaker of the abbess
county hospital. Already in adulthood, he married for the second time a young popadyanka Tatiana Osipovna Malevich, 17 years old and had four daughters and a son from her. The serious illness of the father, who received a penny salary, led to a difficult financial situation and the children were taken to an orphanage before their father's death. The boy soon died in the hospital, and the girls remained until the age of 14 in a shelter, living conditions in which were poor.
Maxim's mother, being a lively talented child with luxurious hair, attracted the attention of the governor's governess Petrova, who took her to her house and sent her to study at the Alexander Women's College, and after completing her studies in it sent her to St. Petersburg to a female teacher's school, settling in an apartment with her relatives Petrov.
Maria Afanasyevna read a lot. As Adam Bogdanovich noted, "her letters struck both with the accuracy of observations, and with the liveliness and picturesqueness of the language." She even had a story written to her, which, according to her husband, showed that she had "figurativeness" and could become a good writer. Adam Bogdanovich also particularly noted her "excruciating vividness of imagination."
Maxim's mother, being a lively talented child with luxurious hair, attracted the attention of the governor's governess Petrova, who took her to her house and sent her to study at the Alexander Women's College, and after completing her studies in it sent her to St. Petersburg to a female teacher's school, settling in an apartment with her relatives Petrov.
Maria Afanasyevna read a lot. As Adam Bogdanovich noted, "her letters struck both with the accuracy of observations, and with the liveliness and picturesqueness of the language." She even had a story written to her, which, according to her husband, showed that she had "figurativeness" and could become a good writer. Adam Bogdanovich also particularly noted her "excruciating vividness of imagination."
