Anna Mitrofanovna Avinova was born in the
Caucasus. Some sources give 1868 as her year of birth, and others 1869. She married the literary critic
Evgeny Anichkov and moved to
Paris in the late 1890s, establishing a
literary salon there which attracted writers like
Anatole France and
Vlacheslav Ivanov. She wrote novels in French, and contributed to
Revue de Paris,
Revue Bleu and
Figaro. In 1909 the couple returned to Russia, and she began writing short fiction for the 'thick periodicals' there. After the
Russian Revolution in 1917 she concentrated on translation rather than fiction. ==Works==