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Family Chronicle 1812

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Lydia Andreyevna Rostopchina (1838-1915), Russian-French writer, translator, memoirist, daughter of the famous poetess of Pushkin's time and mistress of the literary salon Evdokia Petrovna Rostopchina (1811-1858), granddaughter of Count F.V. Rostopchina (1765-1826), Moscow governor-general. By the end of the XIX century. about the achievements of her relatives began to be forgotten, there were unfair judgments against them. Lydia Andreyevna felt it her duty to publish her memoirs about the family, supplementing them with consonant memoirs of others. "Family Chronicle" is written in an easy literary language. The author, building the drama of the fates of his loved ones, analyzes the opinions of contemporaries about them and tries to find the truth among divergent sources.
The new edition is supplemented with a preface, commentary and name index by T. G. Borodinskaya. G. Borodinskaya.
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