Ada Artemyevna Chumachenko (9 September 1887 – 5 May 1954) was a Russian Empire poet, playwright and writer.
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| Born | 9 September 1887 Taganrog |
| Died | 5 May 1954 (aged 66) Moscow |
| Nationality | Russian Empire |
Life
editChumachenko was born in Taganrog in 1887. Her parents Artemy Pavlovich Chumachenko and Ariadna Iasonovna Chumachenko (born Blonskaya) were both Ukrainian and teachers.[1]
She began publishing poetry locally in 1895 at the age of eight[1] and more widely from 1905. She wrote two plays for children which were staged by the Nezlobin Theater: Lully the Musician, which won a prize in 1912, and The Snow Queen in 1915. She published her first book of poems in 1912.[1]
After the Revolution she led the theater section at the People's Commissariat for Education in the Moscow Palace of Arts.[2] She brought on many young writers including Maxim Gorky.[3] After 1926 she wrote for children and her best received work was "A Man from the Moon" in 1939. This was a fictional biography of the scientist Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay.[1]
During the war she moved jobs and ended up in 1945 at the children's magazine Murzilka.
Chumachenko died in Moscow in 1954.
References
edit- ^ a b c d B. L. Bessonov (1994). Dictionary of Russian Women Writers. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 137. ISBN 978-0-313-26265-4.
- ^ Цветаева М. «Пленный дух» (Моя встреча с Андреем Белым) // Цветаева М. И. Собрание сочинений в 7-х тт. — М.: Эллис Лак, 1994.
- ^ Кардашова А. Живая шляпа//Жизнь и творчество Николая Носова: Сборник./Сост. С. Е. Миримский; Оформл. Б. Кыштымова. — М.: Дет. лит., 1985. — 256 с. — С. 123—130.