Anna Mitrofanovna Anichkova (1868/1869 – 1935) was a Russian writer and translator who published under the pseudonym Ivan Strannik.

[1] Anna Mitrofanovna Avinova was born in the Caucasus.

[1][3] 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.

[4] 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.