Herzbruder

Olga Komarova is an author from the Moscow–Leningrad underground circles of the late 1980s. She was published in the samizdat “Mitin Journal,” the Riga magazine “Third Modernization,” and other collective projects. In 1999, in the publishing house “Kolonna,” a run of 250 copies of her story collection “Herzbruder” was released. In Komarova’s prose, early Russian postmodernism wages a hard positional struggle against Orthodox, mockingly “foolish” feminism. In the early 1990s, Komarova turned to radical Orthodoxy and forbade the publication of her texts after her death, and she destroyed a significant part of what she had written. Late in life, she worked as a nurse at the First City Hospital. She died in 1995 in a car accident.