Alena Damaratskaya is a famous Russian writer and article writer from Khabarovskiy oblast. Born in Arkhangelskoy, she was a talented athlete as well as a talented writer. In her early years, she studied medicine but these studies were in no way related to the career she pursued later. After completing her medical studies, Alena specialized in the field of zoology when she was offered a position at the prestigious Institute of Physical Anthropology in St. Petersburg. There, Alena worked for several years with a renowned zoologist, Dr. Pyotr Fedorov, who specialized in anthropology, anatomy, physiology and psychology. However, by all accounts, Alena Damaratskaya was not interested in working with the paleo-physiology of animals, opting instead for the more secular subject of nationality and identity.
By all accounts, Alena Damaratskaya’s first and only love was gardening. In her youth, she had also studied accounting and she seems to have spent a great deal of time writing about plants and their life cycles. As her career progressed, however, Alena became more interested in the history of medicine and began to read extensively on the subject. This would seem to lend some credence to the assumption that she might be a person with an interest in anthropology. The subject of race in the early part of her career would seem to lend some credence to that theory as well.
According to reports, Alena Damaratskaya began to write about race when she fell in love with an ethnically Russian peasant girl from a village called Smolensk. The peasant girl spoke nothing but Russian and Alena took deep desires to find out more about the life of the peasant. She would go to the city of Moscow, where she spent time wandering the streets and talking with locals, but according to one tale, Alena often stayed at a sweet restaurant on the outskirts of the city with a rather disreputable Pole, reading aloud passages from Maxim Gorky’s Think Before You Eat. After some time, according to one story, she got fed up of this woman and went looking for a better pole, to which she returned six times, eventually settling down in a modest house in a Moscow suburb.