When in my previous post I said that Liza Herzen's
destination was Antiterra (rather than Terra), I should have added that the hero
of Dostoevsky's story Son smeshnogo cheloveka ("The Dream of a
Ridiculous Man," 1877, first published in Writer's Diary) commits
a suicide in his dream and travels to Earth's twin planet. In several articles
(including "Ada as a Triple Dream") I suggested that this planet
is Antiterra (the world on which Nabokov's novel is
set).
Also, the name Karamzin, of the Russian historian
and the author of Poor Liza, brings to mind Karmazinov, a
character in Dostoevsky's Besy ("The Possessed," 1872), an
amusing caricature of Turgenev. The novel's characters also
include Liza Tushin and several suicides (Kirillov,
Stavrogin).
Alexey Sklyarenko