Khvoshchinskaya Sisters Digital Collection

My fellow Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya fans—and, of course, fans of her sisters—will love the new site put together by a team of Khvoshchinskaya scholars as well as librarians and researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. It’s not just links, but actual downloadable .pdfs of the sisters’ works and works about them. And it’s not just the most famous pieces, but also things like a story Khvoshchinskaya translated from Norwegian for a newspaper originally by an author whose Wikipedia page currently exists only in Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish. Last summer I spent hours trying to track down details about Khvoshchinskaya’s many translations, and I could find where a lot of the Italian and French ones came from, but her translations of Lars Dilling stumped me.

I’m going to keep up, in the senses of “leave online” and “occasionally maintain,” the bibliographies of Khvoshchinskaya’s works and secondary literature about them, but you’ll want to go to the Khvoshchinskaya Sisters Digital Collection first. You can also find the 1876 portrait of Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya that Pavel Tretiakov commissioned from Ivan Kramskoi over there (and copied in this post).