Anna Gansen Biography

It was as if someone knocked on the street in a shaking window-briefly and cheerfully, and the glass responded through the rooms: “An-na gan-n-zen ...” Anya was born on December 8 in the new style of the year in the small city of Kasimov, on the oka. There were very few days before Christmas, and everyone had a clear mood. The stoves drowned hotly, and the haze above the pipes stood in the frosty air as bewitched.

The street creaked with felt boots and rang with buckets. Anya began to write poetry early. Many girls write poetry, and then throw. Ani has this habit - to record their feelings in verses - remained for life. Oh, the world is harmful, and the dreams of magical and poetic ones, you will only bring me alone ... So Anya wrote at the age of fourteen, when children usually do not believe in fairy tales.

But, it seems to me, precisely because Anya was so gullible, dreamy and kind, fate gave her a fabulous meeting soon. This is how it happened. Ani's father, merchant Vasily Vasilievich, transferred his family to Petersburg. Anya began to study at the foundry gymnasium and then finished it with a silver medal. Once at the ball, a sixteen -year -old gymnasium student Anya Vasilieva met a former actor of the Royal Theater in Copenhagen Peter Gansen.

By that time, Peter had left the scene, entered the Russian service, became a postal and telegraph official of the 2nd category and was in charge of a telegraph school. An unusual official was Peter Gansen. After the service, he sat down to translate the books of Russian writers into Danish. Gansen, stored in the manuscript department of the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences Pushkin House.

In the year, young people got married and Anya Vasilieva became Anna Gansen. Soon she learned from Peter the Danish, Norwegian, Swedish languages. Once Peter began to translate into Russian the works of H. Anya undertook to help.

And either because Peter told her a lot about Andersen, with whom he was familiar in his youth, or because Anya remained a child in her soul, but she was successful of fairy tales, and we still read the Great Danes in the translations of Anna Gansen. For them, Anna Vasilievna herself wrote fairy tales in verses. The revolution of the year found Peter Gansen in Denmark. Dmitry lived in Riga and was also abroad.

Leo and Vladimir died. Anna Vasilievna could go to her husband in Denmark, but stayed with her daughters at home. She made the same courageous choice in the year when the war began and Leningrad was in the blockade. The seventy -two -year -old translator remained in a starving and freezing city. Anna Vasilievna Gansen died on April 2. Library at school: Publishing House "First of September".