Why Russian Girls Loved Charskaia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10485807 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Beth Holmgren (0000-0003-4194-5804, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 91-91 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Russian Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0036-0341 • E-ISSN: 1467-9434 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/130776 |
| OpenAlex | W2326109200 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
In 1912 the large publishing firm of M. O. Vol'f began advertising a pamphlet by Viktor Rusakov entitled Why Do Children Love Charskaia? Almost certainly a promotional ploy (the subject was one of Vol'f's authors), this publication also marked the achieved commercial success of the writer Lidiia Charskaia (1875-1937). Since her literary debut in 1901, Charskaia (a pseudonym for Churilova) had quickly emerged as the mainstay of the popular children's journal, Zadushevnoe slovo (18771918), and a bestselling author of fiction for children, especially older girls. Her work ranged over a number of topics and genres, but she was most renowned for her girls' institute stories and tales of girls' adventures on the Caucasian and Siberian frontiers or various combinations of both. By the end of her writing career in 1917, Charskaia had produced a colossal list of over eighty books. Her most successful novels were reprinted four and five times, in pressruns of five thousand, at the then hefty price of three rubles; her stories and novel installments were prominently displayed in almost every issue of Zadushevnoe slovo; and according to library reports, her works were in enormous demand-requested many times more than the popular novels of Jules Verne.1
Political science · Psychology · Themes in Literature Analysis
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |