Lidia Zinóvieva Annibal

Lidia Zinóvieva Annibal

Lidia Zinovieva-Annibal was a Russian playwright and prose writer who developed her creative work in the so-called Silver Age of Russian poetry. She was the host of the literary salon "The Tower", together with her second husband, the poet Viacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov, theorist and leader of Russian Symbolism. In 1903 and 1904 she published the stories, "Burning Torches" and "Rings" respectively, and in 1907 the short novel Thirty-Three Monsters, the first to deal with lesbianism openly in Russia. This motivated the ban on it, which was later revoked. She passed away on October 17, 1907 at age 42, of scarlet fever.