Margarita Gabel
Ukrainian literary critic and bibliographer (1893–1981)
Margarita Orestovna Gabel (13 November 1893 – 1981) was a Ukrainian literary critic and bibliographer. She held a Candidate of Philological Sciences degree.
Early life
She was born on 13 November 1893 in Kharkov (Kharkiv). Her parents were revolutionaries associated with the Narodnik movement: Orest and Augustina Gabel. After serving their sentence in exile in Irkutsk Governorate, they moved to Kharkiv, where Orest Gabel soon became a member of the board of the Kharkiv Public Library. Margarita was the youngest child in the family, she had four sisters: Ludmila, Elena, Valeria, Maria, and a brother, Yuri, who later became a renowned chemist.
Margarita Gabel attended the private female gymnasiums of Pokrovsky and Ilyashev, from which she graduated in 1911. She continued her studies in the gymnasium for an additional eighth grade, which she completed the following year, receiving the title of home tutor. She continued her education at the Historical-Philological Faculty of the Kharkiv Higher Women's Courses. In 1916, she graduated from the historical department, and in 1919, from the philological department.
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