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Yekaterina Avdeyeva

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Yekaterina Alekseyevna Avdeyeva
Екатерина Алексеевна Авдеева
Born16 August [O.S. 5 August] 1788
Died21 July [O.S. 2 August] 1865
Derpt, Russian Empire (now Tartu, Estonia)
OccupationWriter

Yekaterina Alekseyevna Avdeyeva (Russian: Екатерина Алексеевна Авдеева; née Polevaya, Полевая; 1788–1865) was a Russian writer, known especially for her books on homemaking and collections of Russian folk tales. She was a sister of Nikolai Polevoy and Ksenofont Polevoy. In 1837 she published a book called Notes and remarks about Siberia.[1]

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  1. ^ James R. Gibson (18 November 2011). Feeding the Russian Fur Trade: Provisionment of the Okhotsk Seaboard and the Kamchatka Peninsula, 1639–1856. University of Wisconsin Pres. p. 246. ISBN 978-0-299-05233-1.