Without guilt, guilty

About Elena Ivanovna Blaramberg (in the marriage of April, the pseudonym Ardov) is known and a lot and few at the same time. She used the location of Turgenev and the family of Polina Viardot, Pisarev, Korolenko, other outstanding figures of literature and art. Her Moscow salon was visited by Ostrovsky, Pisemsky, Serov. Inspired by her appearance, Repin invited Elena Ivanovna to pose for the picture "Princess Sophia". Her novels, essays and translations were successful. However, the name of the writer is unfamiliar to the modern reader, her works were almost not reprinted. In the series" Russian Literary Archive ", her novel" The Trouble -Treaty "and the Tale of the Outstanding Woman" come out. In the novel "Without guilt, the guilty" (1877) Apreleva turns to the topic of a divorce that excited the Russian society of that time. This question has become the subject of hot discussions in both the press and in the literature ... In the novel “Outstanding Woman” (1894) April, following Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, argues about “dividing people into ordinary and extraordinary”. "The one who does not flow in the veins, but live, hot blood, cannot enclose his passionate, susceptible nature into the close framework of rational analysis"