Margarita Vladimirovna Rokotova was born in
Kyiv in 1872. In 1889 she began a writing career after initially training as an artist. Her writing career started well but she married a forestry worker named Iamshchikov, who burnt her stories intended for magazines. Rokotova left her husband with her passport but she took their daughter. She supported herself for six years by copying documents whilst she attended police stations to explain her lack of documentation. In 1899 she published a biography she had written of the poet
Semyon Nadson, who had died in 1877. Revolution was beginning and Rokotova's flat in St. Petersburg was the publishing house of the left wing student newspaper
Young Russia. She was drafted in to help with two
Bolshevik newspapers after the
October Revolution at the
Smolny Institute. As a result, she met many of the leading revolutionists like
Lenin. She was drafted to do publicity work in
Moscow where she stayed at the
Metropole Hotel for years. In time, her daughter began to assist her. She adopted the name of
Art. Feliche. ==Death and legacy==