According to the biographical notes found in the famous anthology of Twentieth Century Russian Poetry, which covers Russian Lyrical verse from the Symbolist Movement (1894-1925), Mirra Lokhvitskaya was the daughter of a famous St. Petersburg criminal lawyer. She attended the Moscow Aleksandrian Institute, where early on she attracted attention to her poetic talents. Her first, modest-in-quality, collection of verse was published by the Russian intellectual and aesthetic public; in 1887 she received the coveted Pushkin Prize for poetry for her first major volume of collected verse. She won this prize again in 1905; ... the award was presented posthumously.