Women and the Transfer of Knowledge in the Black Sea Region
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Halide Edip was born in 1882. She became one of the symbols of independent Turkish women in Independence War period and the early modernist period in Turkey. In 1893, she started studying at Uskudar American Girls’ College. She was very fluent in English and her
She was born in rich family in Caucasus. Her father is Turk, her mother is Russian. She graduated from Russian gymnasium, in German language she was trained by her governess. In 1917 during the civil war in the Russian Empire she departed alone to Istanbul
Olga Sergeevna Lebedeva (née Barshcheva; Russian: Ольга Сергеевна Лебедева 1854–after 1912) was one of the first to introduce Russian literature to Turkey. She is recognised for her pioneering contributions to the literary networks between the Ottoman and she Russian empires at the end of the 19th century. Lebedeva attended Kazan University, studying