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From: "Olga Voronina" <olvor@rol.ru>
To: <chtodel@cox.net>; <ouvpete@pd.state.gov>
Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 1:59 AM
Subject: sad news
> Dear Don and the List,
>
> Sad news from St.Petersburg. Natalia Ivanovna Tolstaya died yesterday
> morning (January 24). She had been in a hospice in Novyi Peterhof (near
> St.Petersburg) for several months before it happened, slowly losing
> contact with the outer world. The wake is to take place in the Peter and
> Paul's Church in Novyi Peterhof on January 27, Monday, at 11 am.
>
> Eugeniy Belodubrovsky told me that the book she was expecting so, a
> collection of her letters to Elena Sikorskaya and of letters from ES to
> NT, is to be published by Aleteya in the spring. One copy of the book
> was printed especially for Natalia Ivanovna, but although she saw it,
> she didn't really react to it.
>
> It is sad to have lost Natalia Tolstaya - and to have lost her to an
> illness that was so cruel to her. She was one of the first people to
> introduce Nabokov in Russia with passion and scholarly precision his art
> deserves. Her personality, knowledge, wisdom, sense of humor, her being
> one of the few people who actually stayed in touch with the Nabokovs at
> the time when most Russians found it dangerous or plain impossible, will
> be greatly missed here. I personally didn't know her well, but Maria
> Malikova, Eugeniy Belodubrovsky, and Brian Boyd could perhaps say a few
> words about Natalia Ivanovna, bringing her back to life through their
> recollections.
>
> All best,
>
> Olga
>
> Olga Voronina
> The Vladimir Nabokov Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
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EDNOTE. I add only that Natalya Tolstoy was the guiding spirit in the
publication of the Symposium edition of VN's works. It remains the best and
mosr complete edition.
From: "Olga Voronina" <olvor@rol.ru>
To: <chtodel@cox.net>; <ouvpete@pd.state.gov>
Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 1:59 AM
Subject: sad news
> Dear Don and the List,
>
> Sad news from St.Petersburg. Natalia Ivanovna Tolstaya died yesterday
> morning (January 24). She had been in a hospice in Novyi Peterhof (near
> St.Petersburg) for several months before it happened, slowly losing
> contact with the outer world. The wake is to take place in the Peter and
> Paul's Church in Novyi Peterhof on January 27, Monday, at 11 am.
>
> Eugeniy Belodubrovsky told me that the book she was expecting so, a
> collection of her letters to Elena Sikorskaya and of letters from ES to
> NT, is to be published by Aleteya in the spring. One copy of the book
> was printed especially for Natalia Ivanovna, but although she saw it,
> she didn't really react to it.
>
> It is sad to have lost Natalia Tolstaya - and to have lost her to an
> illness that was so cruel to her. She was one of the first people to
> introduce Nabokov in Russia with passion and scholarly precision his art
> deserves. Her personality, knowledge, wisdom, sense of humor, her being
> one of the few people who actually stayed in touch with the Nabokovs at
> the time when most Russians found it dangerous or plain impossible, will
> be greatly missed here. I personally didn't know her well, but Maria
> Malikova, Eugeniy Belodubrovsky, and Brian Boyd could perhaps say a few
> words about Natalia Ivanovna, bringing her back to life through their
> recollections.
>
> All best,
>
> Olga
>
> Olga Voronina
> The Vladimir Nabokov Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
------------------------
EDNOTE. I add only that Natalya Tolstoy was the guiding spirit in the
publication of the Symposium edition of VN's works. It remains the best and
mosr complete edition.