Memories 1848-1870

The life of Natalia Alekseevna Ogarova-Tuchkov was inextricably intertwined with the fate of Herzen and Ogarev, with whom she was associated with close and largely tragic relations. In 1876, returning to Russia after many years of emigration, she wrote memories, alone and ruthlessly told about themselves and about people with whom her life brought. Among her acquaintances and friends were wonderful personalities: Turgenev, Garibaldi, Bakunin, Hugo ...
You are not an academic publication, but a read book with minimal, but necessary reference material. Consciously hidden behind a misty veil, otherwise we did not understand this truly fatal fate, we tried to clarify, placing an article in the end of the publication, written by the famous literary critic Mikhail Osipovich Gershenzon after the death of Natalia Alekseevna: he had a chance to see her personally.
"Overlooking the life of Natalia Alekseevna in mind, it is difficult to put the idea that the curse really is really on this life. In this soul there were deposits that provided her seemed to be gracious stay in the world: the perfect lack of conscious egoism and the gift of immensely devotional love. But each of her love turned into a torment for her beloved, and N.A. himself Each struck the bleeding wound. So from love for love, from the punishment to the kara is her life ... "