Hippius, Anna (1872-1942) | University of Illinois Archives

Name: Hippius, Anna (1872-1942)

Historical Note: Anna Nikolaevna Hippius (1872-1942), was one of Zinaida Hippius's three younger sisters. After the Revolution she fled Soviet Russia (their two other sisters, Tatiana and Natalia, stayed there for the rest of their lives) and settled in Paris. Although Anna Hippius studied medicine in Russia and practiced it for several years, in emigration she made her living on final preparation of Russian writers' manuscripts. She also wrote and published (under the pen name Anna Giz) her own works. In 1927 she published a hagiography of St. Tikhon Zadonskii (Sviatoi Tikhon Zadonskii). Her diary "Obitel' Solovetskaia" (The Cloister of Solovetsk) appeared posthumously in an abridged form in Vozrozhdenie (1959, No. 83).