Yekaterina Alekseyevna Avdeyeva | |
Native Name: | Екатерина Алексеевна Авдеева |
Native Name Lang: | Russian |
Birth Place: | Kursk, Russian Empire |
Death Place: | Derpt, Russian Empire (now Tartu, Estonia) |
Occupation: | Writer |
(Russian: Екатерина Алексеевна Авдеева; née, Russian: 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]