Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal (1866–1907)

Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal was born to an aristocratic Russian family descended from Abraham Hannibal, the famous godson of Tsar Peter the Great. She held nonconformist and revolutionary ideas and was a member of the early feminist movement in Russia. She and her second husband, the poet-philosopher Vyacheslav Ivanov, hosted an influential literary salon in St. Petersburg called The Tower. She wrote numerous Symbolist plays and novels, but is best remembered today for The Tragic Menagerie (1907), a collection of semi-autobiographical short stories, published shortly before her death.