Перелетные птицы

Rachinskaya Elizaveta Nikolaevna 1904 - 1993) - poet and journalist. Father is a colonel. According to the poetess, he belonged to the "military aristocracy". Mother was brought up at the Smolny Institute. Husband - attorney at law I. A. Guselnikov; in 1945 he was arrested, taken to the USSR, convicted and sent to a camp. As a child, Rachinskaya lived in Helsingfors. In 1918 she emigrated to China. She studied at the Harbin Commercial School, then at a private gymnasium. She listened to a series of lectures at the Faculty of Law in Harbin. She worked in the commercial agency of the South Manchurian Railway and in the Manchurian branch of Brynner's Swiss trading company. In 1926, her collection of poems "Keys" was published. Her book "To Whom in Harbin to Live Well" was also published. In 1937 she published a collection of short stories "Jebel-Kebir". In 1941 and 1942 she participated in the almanac "Surf", in 1945 - in the collection "Lyra". Since 1956 she lived in Sydney, worked in a stationery company and in a French engineering company. Beginning in 1964, she worked for the BBC in London for thirteen years. Her articles appeared in Russian Australian periodicals and in New York's New Russian Word. Rachinskaya is the author of the memoirs Migratory Birds (1982) and Kaleidoscope of Life (1990).