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Speaking of Herzen, I forgot to mention that his mother Luiza Ivanovna (nee Louise Haag) and son Kolya (who was a deaf mute; Kolya is a diminutive of Nikolay) died in a ship-wreck near the Iles d'Hyeres in 1851. As I pointed out earlier, Nikolay Tolstoy (Leo's older brother) died in Hyeres on September 20, 1860.
On the other hand, Herzen's daughter by Natalya Tuchkov-Ogaryov, Liza Herzen, committed a suicide because of unrequitted love. Dostoevsky cites (not quite accurately) her "cynical" suicide note in the October, 1876, issue of his Writer's Diary:
"Предпринимаю длинное путешествие. Если самоубийство не удастся, то пусть соберутся все отпраздновать мое Воскресение из мёртвых с бокалами Клико. А если удастся, то я прошу только, чтобы схоронили меня, вполне убедясь, что я мёртвая, потому что совсем неприятно проснуться в гробу под землёй. Очень даже не шикарно выйдет!"
Seventeen-year-old Liza killed herself with chloroform. In her suicide note she says that she undertakes a long journey but is afraid of awakening "in a coffin under the earth." In a sense, her destination is Antiterra, rather than (far less chic) Terra.
Liza Herzen is a namesake of the heroine of Nikolay Karamzin's "Poor Liza" (1792) who commits a suicide by drowning herself, as Lucette does in Ada.
Клико = оклик = колик = кролик - р = Клио + к (Клико - Veuve Clicquot, champagne mentioned by Liza Herzen in her last note and by Pushkin in Eugene Onegin; оклик - hail; колик - of colics; cf. смеяться до колик, make oneself ill with laughing; кролик - rabbit; cf. Ada's Dr Krolik; Клио - Clio, the Muse of history)
Alexey Sklyarenko
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On the other hand, Herzen's daughter by Natalya Tuchkov-Ogaryov, Liza Herzen, committed a suicide because of unrequitted love. Dostoevsky cites (not quite accurately) her "cynical" suicide note in the October, 1876, issue of his Writer's Diary:
"Предпринимаю длинное путешествие. Если самоубийство не удастся, то пусть соберутся все отпраздновать мое Воскресение из мёртвых с бокалами Клико. А если удастся, то я прошу только, чтобы схоронили меня, вполне убедясь, что я мёртвая, потому что совсем неприятно проснуться в гробу под землёй. Очень даже не шикарно выйдет!"
Seventeen-year-old Liza killed herself with chloroform. In her suicide note she says that she undertakes a long journey but is afraid of awakening "in a coffin under the earth." In a sense, her destination is Antiterra, rather than (far less chic) Terra.
Liza Herzen is a namesake of the heroine of Nikolay Karamzin's "Poor Liza" (1792) who commits a suicide by drowning herself, as Lucette does in Ada.
Клико = оклик = колик = кролик - р = Клио + к (Клико - Veuve Clicquot, champagne mentioned by Liza Herzen in her last note and by Pushkin in Eugene Onegin; оклик - hail; колик - of colics; cf. смеяться до колик, make oneself ill with laughing; кролик - rabbit; cf. Ada's Dr Krolik; Клио - Clio, the Muse of history)
Alexey Sklyarenko
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