Evdokiya Rostopchina

[1][2] After losing her mother at the age of six, Evdokiya Sushkova grew up in Moscow in the family of her maternal grandfather, Ivan Alexandrovich Pashkov.

In 1831, her friend Pyotr Vyazemsky published her first poem, "Talisman", in his almanac Severnye Tsvety (Northern Flowers).

During her trip abroad in 1845, the poet wrote an allegorical ballad named "Forced Marriage" (Russian: Насильный брак), in which she condemned Russia's relationship with Poland.

On the orders of enraged Nicholas I, Rostopchina was forbidden to appear in the capital; and till the death of the tsar, she lived in Moscow.

In the last years of her life, she ridiculed various literary movements in Russia; as a result, she found herself in complete isolation.