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Author: Khvostova, Aleksandra Petrovna (née Kheraskova)

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Gender:female
Year of birth:1768
Year of death:1853
About her personal situation:Auteur d'écrits rediges en francais, inedits: Mes dernieres pensees, Petronille, Education particuliere (autobiographie spirituelle, envoyee a Mme de Krudener et a sa fille, Juliette Berckheim, en 1821 ou 1822) Dans l'Education particuliere elle parle de sa lecture en 1806 de la Vie de Mme Guyon et de son influence spirituelle Petronille se trouve dans un album manuscrit ou figure un ecrit de Zinaida Volkonskaia, donc elles se connaissaient. En mai 1822, apres l'interdiction des societes mystiques, Khvostova, ainsi que Mme de Krudener, recurent l'ordre de quitter Saint-Petersbourg. Khvostova mourut a Kiev.

Countries:Russia
Languages:Russian - French
Relations to other authors: Friend of Krüdener, Varvara Juliana von
Friend of Labzina, Anna Evdokimovna (nee Yakovleva)


About her professional situation:Ses ouvrages en russe, Lettres d'une chretienne qui languit apres sa patrie celeste, adressees a ses amis, qui sont mari et femme (1815) et Conseils a mon ame, oeuvre d'une chretienne qui languit apres sa patrie celeste (1816) etaient lus "comme les epitres des apotres" selon le temoignage de l'archimandrite Photius (Autobiographie, publiee en 1894)
Elements of bibliography:mentioned in: - Golitsyn, Slovar', 1892
Websites: Online text in Corinna project

Editors: Suzan van Dijk (update on 12 December 2009)
Elena Gretchanaia (update on 10 September 2010)
Suzan van Dijk (update on 11 September 2010)
Suzan van Dijk (update on 11 September 2010)
Suzan van Dijk (update on 20 February 2011)
Suzan van Dijk (update on 20 February 2011)
Suzan van Dijk (update on 17 April 2013)

Works written by this author

E 1 Education particuliere (1840)
E 2 Mes dernières pensées (1840)
E 3 Petronille (1840)
E 4 Письма христианки, тоскующей по горнем своем отечестве, к двум друзьям ее, мужу и жене (Lettres d'une chretienne qui languit apres sa patrie celeste, adressees a ses amis, qui sont mari et femme) (1815)
E 5 Советы душе моей, творение христианки, тоскующей по горнем своем отечестве (Conseils à mon âme, oeuvre d'une Chrétienne qui languit après sa patrie céleste) (1816)

Authors read by this author

Xreception 1 Deshoulières, Antoinette   -   Le Ruisseau
Xreception 2 Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvière de la Mothe   -   La vie de Mme J.M.B. de la Mothe Guion, écrite par elle-même
Xreception 3 Volkonskaya, Princesse Zinaida Alexandrova   -   *Volkonskaya, the author