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October 2024

October 17, 2024
STEPPES   Count Kiselev wanted to hand Andrei Mikhailovich all the papers concerning the Saratov...
October 17, 2024
ZENEIDA R-VA   At the end of 1837, Helena Andreevna returned to Colonel Pyotr Alekseevich....
October 17, 2024
Winter Palace   Having arranged for his family to stay at the waters, Andrei Mikhailovich...
October 16, 2024
  A HEROINE OF OUR TIME Spring 1837.   Along the boulevard, young men in...
October 16, 2024
PYATIGORSK   They left St. Petersburg on May 8, stopping on the way to see...
October 15, 2024
DUELLISTES   Following a petition from Timiryazev, Count Bludov summoned Andrei Mikhailovich to St. Petersburg...
October 15, 2024
LOVE AND AMBITION 1836 Serving as Vera’s nurse, and far from consoled by the loss...
October 15, 2024
KALMYK ULUS   While Andrei Mikhailovich was seeing to the Kalmyk administration, in Kathmandu an...
October 15, 2024
NEVSKY PROSPEKT July 1836 The Hahn family left Ekaterinoslav on April 30th for Karachev (Oryol...
October 15, 2024
ASTRAKHAN   Andrei Mikhailovich went to Ekaterinoslav in the summer of 1835 and took Katya...
October 15, 2024
SECRET PASSAGES 1835 The Battery was once again on the move, this time stationed in...
October 15, 2024
DEAD SOULS   The general crop failure in Novorossiysk during the summer of 1833 made...
October 15, 2024
RUSALKA   In 1832, a year after deployment, Pyotr Alekseevich returned to Helena Andreevna in...
October 15, 2024
“AMID COFFINS AND DESOLATION”   The precarious peace after Russia’s war with the Ottoman Empire...
October 15, 2024
  LAST WORDS Of SAMUEL KHRISTIANOVICH KONTENIUS   Elena Pavlovna’s illness prevented her from being...
October 15, 2024
INDEPENDENCE 1827-1828   In 1827 Andrei Mikhailovich traveled nearly 3,5000 miles around the colonies. In...
October 15, 2024
PENZA Spring 1826   During Andrei Mikhailovich’s management of the Ekaterinoslav Settlement Office, his relations...
October 05, 2024
THE DECEMBRISTS   Having seen the Tsar off, Andrei Mikhailovich returned to Ekaterinoslav and, having...
October 05, 2024
“THE BLESSED”   Elena Ivanovna died in March 1824, to the extreme grief of Elena...
October 05, 2024
CHUGUEV MILITARY SETTLEMENT   The Fadeevs had another child in 1821, a girl named they...
October 05, 2024
PUSHKIN   In early June 1820, on one of the hottest days of the year,...
October 05, 2024
THE DOUKHOBORS   In May 1818, during Andrei Mikhailovich’s last stay in St. Petersburg, Alexander...
October 05, 2024
THE MYSTERY OF GENERAL INZOV   The summer of 1817 was spent, for the most...
October 05, 2024
THE ARABAT ARROW   Travels in the colonies began for Andrei Mikhailovich in 1816. His...
October 05, 2024
EKATERINOSLAV   At the end of his assignment, Andrei Mikhailovich returned to Nizhny Novgorod for...
October 05, 2024
MADAME KRÜDENER   Klemens von Metternich, the Secretary of State of Austria, one of the...
October 05, 2024
THE HOUSE DOLGORUKUY   The Fadeevs were in St. Petersburg by the Spring of 1814,...
October 05, 2024
    This next series of articles, "Novorossiya," is a continuation of "Tournament Of Shadows."...

September 2024

September 20, 2024
A Tournament Of Shadows: XXV. L’Homme Rouge   When the enemy was expelled from the...
September 19, 2024
A Tournament Of Shadows: XXIV. Princess Dolgorukaya   After two months' stay in Kiev, Andrei...
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