Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal

Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal
Born	1866
Died	1907 Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire

Lydia Dmitrievna Zinovieva-Annibal (Russian: Лидия Дмитриевна Зиновьева-Аннибал) (1866–1907) was a Russian prose writer and dramatist.

Zinovieva-Annibal was associated with the Silver Age of Russian Poetry. She hosted a literary salon, 'The Tower', with her husband, the poet Viacheslav Ivanov. Her short novel Tridsat'-tri uroda (Thirty-Three Abominations) was one of the few works of its day to openly discuss lesbianism.^[1]

Works

• Torches (1903)
• Rings (1904)
• Thirty-Three Abominations (1907) short novel. Transl. by S. D. Cioran in The Silver Age of Russian Culture.
• The Tragic Menagerie (1907) stories.
• No!' (1918)

References

1. Adele Marie Barker and Jehanne M. Gheith, A History of Women's Writing in Russia (Cambridge University Press, 2002: ISBN 0-521-57280-0), p. 195.

Further reading

• Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature
• P. Davidson, The Poetic Imagination of Viacheslav Ivanov