Yekaterina Avdeyeva

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Alekseyevna and the family name is Avdeyeva.
Yekaterina Alekseyevna Avdeyeva
Екатерина Алексеевна Авдеева
Born
Yekaterina Alekseyevna Polevaya

16 August [O.S. 5 August] 1788
Kursk, Russian Empire
Died21 July [O.S. 2 August] 1865 (aged 76)
Dorpt, Russian Empire
OccupationWriter

Yekaterina Alekseyevna Avdeyeva (Russian: Екатерина Алексеевна Авдеева; née Polevaya [Полевая]; 1788–1865) was a Russian writer, known especially for her books on homemaking and collections of Russian folk tales. She was a sister of Nikolai Polevoy and Ksenofont Polevoy. In 1837 she published a book called Notes and remarks about Siberia.

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