They parted again, Demon sailing back to
America, and Van with his tutor going first to Gardone on Lake Garda, where
Aksakov reverently pointed out Goethe's and d'Annunzio's marble footprints, and
then staying for a while in autumn at a hotel on a mountain slope above Leman
Lake (where Karamzin and Count Tolstoy had roamed). (1.24)
After Karamzin but before Tolstoy, Zhukovski (the tutor of
Alexander II) and, in the wake of Zhukovski, Gogol had roamed there. In a letter
(quoted by VN in The Gift and in his book on Gogol and reproduced,
unfaithfully, by Veresaev in Gogol in Life) of November 12, 1836, to
Zhukovski Gogol describes his stay in Vevey[...]
Van's tutor, Andrey Andreevich Aksakov ("AAA") is a
namesake of Gogol's classmate Andrey Andreevich Bozhko. Bozhko = bozhok (idol; minor deity).