Word: nadejda
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...Once he caught fire he blazed up. But he had no money, had to support himself by teaching a heavy schedule at Rubinstein's Moscow Conservatory. At 37 he had become a composer but he was still just a music-teacher. When Rubinstein went to 45-year-old Nadejda von Meek, music-loving widow of a railroad tycoon and Moscow's richest woman, to get her to do something for Tchaikovsky, he started more than he intended...
...When Nadejda heard her first Tchaikovsky music she liked it so much she gave the composer a commission to write something for her. Soon they were in frequent and increasingly intimate correspondence. Nadejda had 12 children and was very much the head of her family. She had a whim of iron, and it was her strongest whim never to appear in public, never to be at home to anyone but her own kin (Rubinstein was apparently the lone exception). As her epistolary friendship with Tchaikovsky grew, her commissions got more munificent, her language ever more affectionate, until finally...
...forget," she ended, "and think of me sometimes." Tchaikovsky's wildest pleas brought nothing after that but a polite note from Nadejda's son-inlaw, to say that she was too ill to write. They never corresponded again, died within three months of each other, four years later...
...September 1934 a new group of white colonists was sent to Wrangel Island. Leader was Konstantin Semenchuk, who had been transferred from a comfortable diplomatic post in Iran. With him went his wife Nadejda, as strange and sultry a character as he. Colonists got their first inkling of what was coming when Governor Semenchuk assembled them upon arrival, shouted: "Up here I am everything. I have all the rights, up to shooting people...
Married. Lady Moira Mary Forbes, 24, niece of Ogden Mills, grandniece of the late Mrs. Whitelaw Reid; and Comte Louis de Brantes, 34; at Castle Forbes, Newtown Forbes, Irish Free State. Three weeks ago Russian Princess Nadejda Scherbatoff sued Groom de Brantes for $65,000 damages allegedly incurred in bearing him a daughter (TIME...