Ekaterina Karamzina to her son Andrei, Petersburg, March 3, 1837: You were right to think that Mrs. Pushkin would become an object of solicitude for me, I have been to see her every day, at first with a feeling of deep pity for her great pain, but then, alas, with the conviction that although she is overwhelmed by it all for the moment, it will be neither long nor deep. It is painful but true to say so: The great, good Pushkin ought to have had a wife who understood him better and was more in harmony with him.... She is in the countryside with one of her brothers, passed through Moscow, where her father-in-law, poor old man, has been living since he lost his wife. Well, passed through without getting in touch, without asking about him, without sending the children to see him.... Poor, poor Pushkin, victim of the frivolity, rashness, and thoughtless behavior of the young and beautiful wife who seems to have risked his life for a few hours of flirting. Don't think I'm exaggerating. I don't mean to blame her, you don't blame children for the unwitting harm they do.
Pushkin's Button by Serena Vitale. 1999. Page 314.
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