Olga Ozarovskaya
{{Short description|Russian folklorist}}
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| name = Olga Ozarovskaya
| image = File:Olga Ozarovskaya.png
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| native_name = О́льга Эра́стовна Озаро́вская
| native_name_lang = ru
| other_names = Olga Erastovna Ozarovskaya
| birth_name = Olga Erastovna von Ozarovskaya
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1874|05|13|df=y}}
| birth_place = Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1933|07|12|1874|05|13|df=y}}
| death_place = Frunze (now Bishkek), Kirghiz ASSR, Soviet Union
| occupation = Folklorist, storyteller, performer, writer, archivist of fairy tales
| spouse = Vasily Dmitrievich Sapozhnikov (m. 1901–1910; death)
| children = 1, Vasilko Vasilyevich Ozarovsky{{Cite web |last=Korsunsky |first=Mikhail |date=September 14, 2005 |title=Учитель любви к природе|url=http://www.msn.kg/ru/news/11290/ |access-date=2022-06-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305041926/http://www.msn.kg/ru/news/11290/|archive-date=March 5, 2016|website=Socio-political newspaper MCH, Bishkek (Общественно-политическая газета МСН) |language=ru}}
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File:Ozarovskaya and Krivopolenova.jpg (left) and Olga Ozarovskaya (right), 1915]]
Olga Erastovna Ozarovskaya ({{Langx|ru|О́льга Эра́стовна Озаро́вская}}; 1874 – 1933) was a Russian folklorist, storyteller, performer, writer, and an archivist of fairy tales.{{Cite web |title=Озаровская О. Э. |trans-title=Ozarovskaya O. E. |url=http://www.ruscircus.ru/cgi/encyc.pl?func=text&sellet=%25CE&selword=2427 |access-date=2022-06-21 |website=Энциклопедия циркового и эстрадного искусства |language=ru}} She published a few Northern Russian folklore collection books.{{Cite web |last=Bovshek |first=Anna |date=Summer 2009 |title=Анна Бовшек - ОЛЬГА ЭРАСТОВНА ОЗАРОВСКАЯ |url=http://sites.utoronto.ca/tsq/29/bovshek29.shtml |access-date=2022-06-21 |website=Toronto Slavic Quarterly, University of Toronto}} Additionally she was the first female civil servant, and the first women to do major scientific institution work within the Russian Empire.{{Cite web |last=Korsunsky |first=Mikhail |date=August 23, 2005 |title=Без памяти доброй… |url=http://www.msn.kg/showwin.php?type=newsportal&id=11062 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305093453/http://www.msn.kg/showwin.php?type=newsportal&id=11062 |archive-date=2016-03-05 |website=Socio-political newspaper MCH, Bishkek (Общественно-политическая газета МСН) |language=ru}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9aSDTOQctZwC |title=Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov |date=2012-12-06 |publisher=Penguin UK |isbn=978-0-14-139254-7 |pages=167 |language=en}} She worked with Russian folklore performer Mariya Krivopolenova.
Early life and education
Olga Erastovna Ozarovskaya was born on May 13, 1874 in Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire to parents Erast Alexanrovich and Varvara Petrovna.Метрические книги церкви Св. мученика Иулиана Тарсийского лейб-гвардии Кирасирского Его Величества полка, г. Царское Село, 1874 г. // ЦГИА СПб. Фонд 19. Опись 126. Дело 996 Л. 33 об.-34 [https://spbarchives.ru/infres/-/archive/cgia/19/126/996 Архивы Санкт-Петербурга] Her father was in the Russian artillery. She had two brothers, {{III|Alexander Erastovich Ozarovsky|ru|Озаровский, Александр Эрастович}}, and {{III|Yuri Erastovich Ozarovsky|ru|Озаровский, Юрий Эрастович}}. Her brother Alexander was a military officer, and her brother Yuri became an actor and the director of the Alexandrinsky Theatre.
She graduated with a degree in chemistry from St. Petersburg University (now Saint Petersburg State University); followed by graduating in 1897 with a degree in mathematics from Higher Women's Courses in St. Petersburg.
Career and late life
From 1898 to 1900, she worked in a civil servant role as a lab technician at the {{III|Bureau of Weights and Measures|ru|Главная палата мер и весов}}, under chemist Dmitri Mendeleev. At this time in history, women did not hold civil service jobs in the Russian Empire; for her to be hired, the then-finance minister Sergei Witte needed to have a decree signed by Nicholas II of Russia. In 1901 she married Vasily Dmitrievich Sapozhnikov, someone she had met at the Bureau of Weights and Measures; and together they had one son, Vasilko Vasilyevich Ozarovsky. Her husband died in 1910.
In the early 20th-century around 1907, Ozarovskaya began performing in amateur circles and for societies. In 1911, she moved to Moscow and founded the Living Word Studio. Between 1915 and 1925, she travelled to Northern Russia four times in order to document the traditional Northern Russian folktales, songs, and epic stories. In 1915, Ozarovskaya had travelled to Arkhangelsk Governorate to collect songs, there she met Mariya Krivopolenova whom she took along with her to Moscow in order for her to perform.{{Cite web |last=Rumyantsev |first=Vyacheslav |title=Кривополенова Мария Дмитриевна |url=http://www.hrono.ru/biograf/bio_k/krivopolenova.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308003017/http://www.hrono.ru/biograf/bio_k/krivopolenova.html |archive-date=2012-03-08 |website=Chronos |language=ru}} She also transcribed Krivopolenova's work, which helped her work gain popularity.
Ozarovskaya died on 12 July 1933Согласно выписки из записи акта о регистрации смерти №1948 от 13.07.1933 г., выданной Межрегиональным отделом 01-03 Департамента регистрации населения при Министерстве цифрового развития Киргизской Республики от 20.02.2024 г. №6631 (г. Бишкек). Опубликовано в книге: Озаровская О. Э. Наши звери / Подгот., авт. предисл., послесл., коммент. Е. В. Павлова; худож. О. Г. Симонова. М.: Издательство «Перо», 2024. - С. 215. ISBN 978-5-00244-604-9 and buried in Frunze (now Bishkek), Kirghiz ASSR, Soviet Union. Her personal archive is stored in St. Petersburg, in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.
Publications
- {{Cite book |last1=Ozarovskaya |first1=Olga Erastovna |url=https://www.prlib.ru/en/node/317167 |title=Бабушкины старины |last2=Krivopolenova |first2=M.D |publisher=Издательство Огни |year=1916 |language=ru |trans-title=A Grandmothers Past |author-link2=Mariya Krivopolenova}}
- {{Cite book |last=Ozarovskaya |first=Olga |title=Пятиречие |year=1931 |language=ru |trans-title=Five Rivers}}
- {{Cite book |last=Ozarovskaya |first=Olga |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9aSDTOQctZwC |title=Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov |publisher=Penguin UK |others=Aleksandr Pushkin (contributions), Nikolay Leskov (contributions), Vasily Grossman (contributions) |year=2012 |isbn=9780141392547 |series=Penguin Classics |translator-last=Chandler |translator-first=Robert |chapter=The Luck of the Tsarevna|work=from Five Rivers}}
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