Famous and productive families in Russian and Czech histories

[Svetlana Grenier]

Thank youk, Grace, for this reminder.
Yes, Elena Gan, her daughter Elena Blavatsky, and also Gan's brother,
Rostislav Fadeev, was famous as a general and political writer in the 1860s
and 1870s.  Dostoevsky argues with him in Diary of a Writer.  See, for
example, http://territa.ru/load/1-1-0-7231  Notably neither this biography,
no the one in Wikipedia.ru mentions the fact that Elena Gan was a famous
writer in her own right!  It turns out Fadeev's and Gan's nephew was the
Russian Prime Minister Sergei Iulievichh Witte.  Another one of Gan's
daughhters, Vera Petrovna Zhelikhovskaia (Madame Blavatsky's sister) was
also a well-known writer, particularly, of children's literature.

It looks like the world of Russian nobility was pretty small (mir tesen)!


On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Grace Morsberger <morsbergerg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> What about the writer Elena Gan and her daughter Helena Blavatsky, the
> theosophist?
>
> Grace Morsberger
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Joseph Schlegel <
> 000000151be55019-dmarc-request at listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
>> There's also the Durov family in the Russian/Soviet circus.
>>
>> The Durovs – Russiapedia Entertainment Prominent Russians
>> <http://russiapedia.rt.com/prominent-russians/entertainment/the-durovs/>
>>  [image: image]
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>>
>> Joseph Schlegel
>> PhD Candidate
>> Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures (University of Toronto)
>>
>>
>>   On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 9:27 PM, Mila Saskova-Pierce <
>> msaskova-pierce1 at UNL.EDU> wrote:
>>
>>
>>   Dear SEELANGERS, I am looking for the names of famous and culturally
>> productive Russian and Czech families, such as Pushkin family, Mikhalkov,
>> Tolstoy, on the Russian side, and Dvorak, Capek, Masaryk, and Benes on the
>> Czech side.  Do you have any other names you could suggest?  And if you
>> know of some infamous family, that might be interesting as well. Thank you
>> very much.  Mila Saskova-Pierce
>>
>> Dr. Mila Saskova-Pierce
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