M. and Mme Appletcheieff

Overview

A Russian couple of the Nice colony whom Marie meets again in Rome (1876) and Paris (1881). In Paris, February 1881: «Les Appletcheieff c'est de l'engeance de Nice, les miens les ont rencontrés chez le consul, les Howard, etc.» (091.0080). The edition index lists «Appletcheieff (M.) : 205» and «Appletcheieff (Mme) : 205, 276» (Mon Journal t.7). Not identified further.

Relevance to Marie

• Rome, 2 April 1876: «Appletcheieff est à Rome, il m'a saluée à l'église. Il connaît déjà l'ambassadeur et sa femme de sorte que lorsque Mme Appletcheieff viendra elle trouvera tout préparé» (056.0322). He is the second of «ces deux ménages» whose stories she sets against her own exclusion from the Russian embassy (056.0322–0324; the first is the envoy's, see Baron Yxkull).
• Naples, 19 April 1876: Torlonia claims to have known Marie's family «sous le nom d'Appletcheieff» until Mlle Mechtchersky told him their real name (058.0252).
• Paris, 1881: dinner at the Juvisys (091.0080); at Queen Isabella's, «vous savez que madame a été fille publique» (091.0384); M. Appletcheieff is said to bear Mme Gavini «une haine éternelle» for having had the family invited, and Marie suspects him of gossiping about her at the Queen's (091.0479).

Translation

Keep Marie's spelling «Appletcheieff».

References in Diary

• 1876-04-02 (056.0322); 1876-04-19 (058.0252); 1881-02-05 (091.0080); 1881-03-28 (091.0384); 1881-04-02 (091.0411); 1881-04-16 (091.0479)