Note H — PREFACE BY VASSILI SPIRIDONOV
S. S. (Samuel Solomonovitch) Koteliansky translation
Tatyana Alexandrovna Ergolskii and her friend, Natalya Petrovna, who was homeless and lived with her. Leo N. writes about them in his Reminiscences of Childhood. They are also mentioned in Ilya Tolstoy's My Reminiscences. (Moscow, 1914.) Of Tatyana Alexandrovna Ergolskii, who died on 20 June 1874, Leo N. T. wrote to Countess A. A. Tolstoy: "She died practically of old age, i.e. she slowly faded away, and as far back as three years ago she had ceased to exist for us." See note 19 below.