Famous and productive families in Russian and Czech histories

[Grace Morsberger]

Wow, thanks, Svetlana! I didn't know about the rest of Elena Gan's
family--fascinating stuff!

Grace


On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Svetlana Grenier <greniers at georgetown.edu>
wrote:

> 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
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>>>  [image: image]
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>>> outstanding satirists and public figures, have put great effort into
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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
>>>
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