Filosofova A.P. (1837-1912), public figure

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FILOSOFOVA (nee Dyagileva) Anna Pavlovna (1837, St. Petersburg - 1912, St. Petersburg), a public figure. The wife of member of State Council V.D. Filosofov (1820-94) and the mother of critic and publicist D.V. Filosofov (1872-1940). Filosofova engaged in the activities of charitable societies in St. Petersburg from the 1850s, she founded the Society of Cheap Apartments and Other Benefits for the Destitute in St. Petersburg in 1861 and chaired it in 1861-76. An active participator in women's movement, she organised, together with N.V. Stasova and M.V. Trubnikova, a number of women's cooperative associations and a circle (1870) that later turned into Vladimirskie Courses. She was one of the founders of Bestuzhev Courses (1878), a member of the Society for Financial Support for the Higher Women's Courses in St. Petersburg (from 1878), and the Russian Mutual Charitable Society (1899). She was close to the Constitutional Democratic Party from 1905. In 1908, she was made the chair of the 1st All-Russian Women's Congress. Filosofova's apartment served as a centre of social life in St. Petersburg in mid-to-late 19th-early 20th centuries (16 Kovensky Lane; commemorative plaque).

Reference: Писарева Е. Ф. Памяти Анны Павловны Философовой. СПб., 1912; Тыркова А. В. Анна Павловна Философова и ее время. Пг., 1915; Рабкина Н. Реальная история и словесность: А. П. Философова в большой литературе // Вопр. лит. 1991. № 9/10. С. 292-298.

D. D. Bogoyavlensky. Filosofov Dmitry Vladimirovich
Filosofov Vladimir Dmitrievich
Filosofova Anna Pavlovna
Stasova Nadezhda Vasilievna
Trubnikova Maria Vasilievna
Kovensky Lane/Saint Petersburg, city, house 16
Писарева Е. Ф. Памяти Анны Павловны Философовой. СПб., 1912
Тыркова А. В. Анна Павловна Философова и ее время. Пг., 1915
Рабкина Н. Реальная история и словесность: А. П. Философова в большой литературе // Вопр. лит., 1991. № 9/10. Vladimirskie Courses
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