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Memoir Excerpt Reveals Mme Tourguenet Tyranny and Family Turmoil
An extract from Mma Gitov's memoirs depicts Mme Tourguenet, mother of novelist Ivan Tourguenet, as a domineering mistress who rules Spasskoe with fear. The narrative recounts severe abuse of Agatha Semionovna and the clerical, social, and emotional pressures that shaped the Tourguenets. The adopted narrator describes childbirth, secret nursing practices, and Agatha's desperate attempts to shield her children from a coercive house.
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Mme. Tourguenet
Nicholas
Mme. Tourgnenet
Mu. Tourzuenet
Angi
Mme. Yourzuenei
Agatha Semionovna
Agatha
Po- Hakef
Nicolas
Ivan Tourguenef
Poliakos
Apaths
Spasskoe
Apgal
Mand
Wirth
Mme. Tourguerief
Petrorakoe
Mie
Tisdrguenet
Mma
Tonrzuenet
Agathe
Miss Kisckwood
Tn Hivannes
Ja Wakion
Mamma
Miss Blackwood
Thad
Mamms
Tourguenef
Tourguenet
Moscow
Our Bouge
Spasskoa
Mme
Tay
Mme. Toorgnesef
Siberia
Mme. Tourgrensf
Tusa
Mme. ‘Burguenel
Leon Evanof
Aime
Agitha
Spaeskoe
Alexandra Danilova
Vanvaea Toorevsxsi
Leon
Dropa
Agarith
Dresumsker
Rdomo
Deis Perent