Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal

Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal (1866–1907) was a Russian prose writer and dramatist associated with Russian Symbolism and the Silver Age of Russian Poetry. She hosted the influential literary salon 'The Tower' with her second husband, poet Viacheslav Ivanov, and was known for her bold works like the short novel Thirty-Three Abominations (1907), one of the first in Russia to openly discuss lesbianism. She died of scarlet fever at age 42.