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October 18, 2024

Mothers & Daughters: Confession

CONFESSION April 16, 1840. Vera sat on the window and watched, mesmerized, as the...

October 18, 2024

Mothers & Daughters: Nanny’s Fairytale

NANNY’S FAIRYTALE Winter 1840. The next evening the family ate their dinner in the...

October 18, 2024

Mothers & Daughters: Nanny Nastya

NANNY NASTYA Winter 1840. “Baba Kapka” was the nickname in the household for the...

October 18, 2024

Mothers & Daughters: Grunya

GRUNYA Winter 1840. Vera and Baba Lena got out of the troika (three-horse sleigh)...

October 18, 2024

Mothers & Daughters: Dasha And Dunya

DASHA & DUNYA Winter 1840. Vera was playing with two “yard girls” her age,...

October 18, 2024

Mothers & Daughters: Christening Of The Doll

THE CHRISTENING OF THE DOLL Winter, 1840. Baba Lena and Dede Andrushka spared nothing...

October 18, 2024

Mothers & Daughters: A Lantern

This series, "Mothers & Daughters," is something of a continuation of "Novorossiya." A closer...

October 17, 2024

Novorossiya: Fire And Ice

FIRE AND ICE From the beginning of the year 1839, Andrei Mikhailovich had many...

October 17, 2024

Novorossiya: Letter To Natalya

LETTER TO NATALYA Helena Andreevna was with the regiment in the village of Kamenskoye...

October 17, 2024

Novorossiya: Steppes

STEPPES Count Kiselev wanted to hand Andrei Mikhailovich all the papers concerning the Saratov...

October 17, 2024

Novosrossiya: Zeneida R-Va

ZENEIDA R-VA At the end of 1837, Helena Andreevna returned to Colonel Pyotr Alekseevich....

October 17, 2024

Novorossiya: Winter Palace

Winter Palace Having arranged for his family to stay at the waters, Andrei Mikhailovich...

October 16, 2024

Novorossiya: A Heroine Of Our Time

A HEROINE OF OUR TIME Spring 1837. Along the boulevard, young men in...

October 16, 2024

Novorossiya: Pyatigorsk

PYATIGORSK They left St. Petersburg on May 8, stopping on the way to see...

October 15, 2024

Novorossiya: Duellistes

DUELLISTES Following a petition from Timiryazev, Count Bludov summoned Andrei Mikhailovich to St. Petersburg...

October 15, 2024

Novorossiya: Love And Ambition

LOVE AND AMBITION 1836 Serving as Vera’s nurse, and far from consoled by the loss...

October 15, 2024

Novorossiya: Kalmyk Ulus

KALMYK ULUS While Andrei Mikhailovich was seeing to the Kalmyk administration, in Kathmandu an...

October 15, 2024

Novorossiya: Nevsky Prospekt

NEVSKY PROSPEKT July 1836 The Hahn family left Ekaterinoslav on April 30th for Karachev (Oryol...

October 15, 2024

Novorossiya: Astrakhan

ASTRAKHAN Andrei Mikhailovich went to Ekaterinoslav in the summer of 1835 and took Katya...

October 15, 2024

Novorossiya: Secret Passages

SECRET PASSAGES 1835 The Battery was once again on the move, this time stationed in...

October 15, 2024

Novorossiya: Dead Souls

DEAD SOULS The general crop failure in Novorossiysk during the summer of 1833 made...

October 15, 2024

Novorossiya: Rusalka

RUSALKA In 1832, a year after deployment, Pyotr Alekseevich returned to Helena Andreevna in...

October 15, 2024

Novorossiya: “Amid Coffins And Desolation”

“AMID COFFINS AND DESOLATION” The precarious peace after Russia’s war with the Ottoman Empire...

October 15, 2024

Novorossiya: Last Words Of Samuel Khristianovich Kontenius

LAST WORDS Of SAMUEL KHRISTIANOVICH KONTENIUS Elena Pavlovna’s illness prevented her from being...

October 15, 2024

Novorossiya: Independence

INDEPENDENCE 1827-1828 In 1827 Andrei Mikhailovich traveled nearly 3,5000 miles around the colonies. In...

October 15, 2024

Novorossiya: Penza

PENZA Spring 1826 During Andrei Mikhailovich’s management of the Ekaterinoslav Settlement Office, his relations...

October 05, 2024

Novorossiya: The Decembrists

THE DECEMBRISTS Having seen the Tsar off, Andrei Mikhailovich returned to Ekaterinoslav and, having...

October 05, 2024

Novorossiya: “The Blessed”

“THE BLESSED” Elena Ivanovna died in March 1824, to the extreme grief of Elena...

October 05, 2024

Novorossiya: Chuguev Military Settlement

CHUGUEV MILITARY SETTLEMENT The Fadeevs had another child in 1821, a girl named they...

October 05, 2024

Novorossiya: Pushkin

PUSHKIN In early June 1820, on one of the hottest days of the year,...