Troitskiy S.A., Troitskaya A.A. Three lives of N. S. Voytkinskaya

Abstract: The article “Three Lives of N. S. Voytkinskaya” describes the versatile personality of Nadezhda Savelyevna Voytkinskaya. There are practically no research dedicated to her; thus, the goal of this article is to familiarize the Russian scientific society with the creative and scientific heritage of this artist, philosopher, and interpreter. This work suggests to percept the various manifestations of N. S. Voytkinskaya creative aptitude not just through the different stages of her creative evolution, but rather as separate and independent paths of development (three lives).  The authors’ contribution consists in the attempt to introduce her works into the scientific circulation. The first part of the article is dedicated to the description of the main milestones of her biography; the author actively attracts the archive materials for the purpose of giving fullness to the picture. The second part describes Voytkinskaya’s contribution into the Russian visual art; she appears as an artist, who under the circumstances has to reject the visual art. This becomes one of the greatest tragedies of her life. The third part present a review of Voytkinskaya’s literary work, in which she appears in two images – as an interpreter, and as an author of popular science books. In the fourth part, which is the most important in the authors’ opinion, Voytkinskaya appears as a philosopher. A significant conclusion of this research consists in a synthetic view upon N. S. Voytkinskaya, which combines various aspects of manifestation of her creative nature that are usually studied separately.

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