Anna Timiryova
Russian painter and poet (1893-1975)
Anna Vasilyevna Timiryova (Russian: Анна Васильевна Тимирёва; 18 July 1893 – 31 January 1975) was a Russian poet. Born Anna Safonova, she was the daughter of composer Vasily Ilyich Safonov. At the age of 19 she married then Captain (and future Admiral) Sergey Nikolayevich Timiryov with whom she soon had a son, but whom she divorced in 1918 to join Alexander Kolchak. After Kolchak's execution in 1920, she was arrested several times and served several prison and labour camp sentences. In 1923, she married Vsevolod Kniper, a railroad engineer. She was the mother of painter Vladimir Sergeyevich Timiryov.
Early life
Anna Vasilyevna Safonova was born in Kislovodsk into the family of a musician and later the manager of the Moscow Music Conservatory, Vasily Ilyich Safonov. Kislovodsk is a spa town in the region of Stavropol in the north of the Caucasus. (Coincidentally, Kislovodsk was also the birthplace of another critic of Communism, Alexander Solzhenitsyn.) At the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century, Kislovodsk welcomed many artists, musicians and members of the Russian nobility.
Education
In 1906, the Safonov family moved to St.
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