Sophia Smirnova

Sophia Ivanovna Smirnova (Russian: Софья Ивановна Смирнова-Сазонова, also: Smirnova-Sazonova, born 1852, Moscow, Imperial Russia, — died in 1921, Moscow, Soviet Russia) was a Russian writer, novelist and memoirist. Smirnova left memoirs on her circle of literary and theatre friends, which included Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Nikolai Leskov, Ivan Turgenev, Nikolai Nekrasov, Ivan Goncharov, Alexander Ostrovsky, as well as Fyodor Burdin, Maria Savina and Vera Komissarzhevskaya. The actor Nikolai Sazonov was her husband.

Sophia Smirnova

Sophia Ivanovna Smirnova (Russian: Софья Ивановна Смирнова-Сазонова, also: Smirnova-Sazonova, born 1852, Moscow, Imperial Russia, — died in 1921, Moscow, Soviet Russia) was a Russian writer, novelist and memoirist. Smirnova left memoirs on her circle of literary and theatre friends, which included Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Nikolai Leskov, Ivan Turgenev, Nikolai Nekrasov, Ivan Goncharov, Alexander Ostrovsky, as well as Fyodor Burdin, Maria Savina and Vera Komissarzhevskaya. The actor Nikolai Sazonov was her husband.