Vystavkina (nee Brovtsyna, Gallop in her 2nd marriage) Ekaterina Vladimirovna

Genus. in 1877 in the village of Greshnevo, Staritsky district, Tver province, into a noble family; Russian; higher education: in 1896 she graduated from the Moscow Catherine Institute of Noble Maidens; from the 1910s she was a member of the Women's Equality League, and in 1915 she was a member of the Council of the Moscow branch of the League. She has collaborated in the magazines “Russian Wealth”, “Russian Thought”, “Women’s Business”, “Family and School”, “Friend of Children”, “Bee”, etc. Author of works for adults and children, devoted mainly to the topics of education and the position of women in family and society. Translated from German the book by G. Tarde “Criminal and Crime” (1906). She wrote the fantastic play “The Red Cap,” which was awarded a prize at a children's play competition in 1912. As a poetess-translator she participated in the collection “Poetry of Armenia from ancient times to the present day in translations of Russian poets...” (M., 1916) and in the “Collection of Armenian Literature” (Petrograd, 1916). The most significant work is the feminist novel “Amazon” (1916), which was well reviewed and the publication of which was promoted by V.G. Korolenko. After 1917 she was mainly engaged in translations. In 1919 she lived in Simferopol, was a fellow secretary of the Simferopol Military Revolutionary Committee. In the early 1920s she emigrated, lived in Berlin, and returned to the USSR in the 1930s. She died in Moscow on March 4, 1957.