Georges Stepanovitch Babanine

Basic Information

Full name: Georges Stepanovitch Babanine (also styled "de Babanine") Born: c. 1831--1833, Poltava region, Russian Empire. Marie states in July 1877 (074.1877-08-23) that Georges is forty-six years old, placing his birth around 1831. Died: Unknown. In March 1882 a false report of his death reached the family (094.1882-03-12); he was alive and begging money from acquaintances as of that date. No confirmed death date has been established. Nationality: Russian (Ukrainian-born). Family role: Marie Bashkirtseff's maternal uncle -- brother of Maria Stepanovna Babanina (Maman) and several other Babanine siblings (Alexandre, Etienne, Stiopa/Stepan, Nicolas, Wladimir, and unnamed sisters). Marriage: Married Domenica Pavlovna Issaievitch (nee Kandibine?), a widow approximately sixteen years his senior, at age 20 (c. 1851--1853). Marriage annulled by Russian courts c. 1872--1873 after a long legal process. Children: Three children by Domenica -- #Dina (born c. 1853--1855), #Lola (married), and #Etienne (died by suicide at age 16, c. January 1874). Georges Babanine was one of the most destructive figures in Marie Bashkirtseff's life. An alcoholic, con man, forger, and domestic abuser, he appears in approximately 134 diary entries across carnets 000--094 (1873--1882). Marie's characterizations of him range from savage epithets -- "cette canaille," "ce monstre," "cet être ignoble" -- to occasional moments of pity for a man who "had everything to be one of the happy ones of this world" yet "wrecked his life for trifles" (094.1882-03-12).

Character and Talents

In her 1884 preface (carnet 000-02), Marie introduces Georges with a catalog number: "N° 1 -- Georges, il demande une notice à part car il nous a assassinés tous" (Number 1 -- Georges, he requires a separate notice because he murdered us all). She describes "cet homme abominable et malheureux" (this abominable and unhappy man) as paradoxically gifted:
- Considered a genius: "Considéré comme un génie et adoré des siens"
- Charming when sober: "ça devenait un charmant cavalier, instruit, spirituel, séduisant"
- Tall and handsome: "grand, beau"
- Artistic talents: Drew caricatures, wrote "vers burlesques à ravir" (delightful burlesque verse)
- Alcoholic: "Il se grisait toujours" (He was always getting drunk); drinking was lifelong -- "l'eau-de-vie et les horreurs"
- Violent: Beat his own mother despite hiding under her skirts; beat officials; struck women (000-02, 053.1876-01-30) From age 19, he engaged in "toutes sortes de folies" (all sorts of madness), alternating between charm and horror. Marie notes he possessed "l'instinct des grandeurs, des élégances, des tripotages financiers" (the instinct for grandeur, elegance, and financial scheming) -- yet lacked the soul even for murder: "pour être un assassin il faut une certaine grandeur d'âme, et lui n'a pas d'âme" (053.1876-01-30).

Marriage and Family

Marriage to Domenica

Georges married at age 20 "une belle veuve de trente-six ans, mère de plusieurs enfants" (a beautiful widow of 36, mother of several children) (000-02). The wife's name was Domenica Pavlovna, née Issaievitch (indexed as "Issaïevitch (Domenica), ex épouse de Georges Babanine" in the raw carnet 7 index). Georges also refers to her as "Mme D. Kandibine qui se dit Mme Babanine" in a published article denying the marriage (053.1876-02-01).

Marie describes Domenica as "une femme pratique, très gaie" who took "distractions" while Georges abandoned her -- a euphemism for extramarital affairs tacitly accepted by the family (000-08). The marriage ended in separation: "Séparé de sa femme bien entendu" (000-02).

Marriage Annulment

The marriage was legally annulled by Russian courts in a complex proceeding. The issue was that Domenica had been a widow with daughters; Georges's brother Etienne Babanine married one of those daughters (Marie Issaievitch). Under Russian law, a man could not simultaneously be married to a woman and have his brother married to her daughter -- the two marriages "ne pouvaient pas être" (could not both exist) (053.1876-01-30).

After a long dormant period ("pendant dix ou quatorze ans on a laissé dormir l'affaire"), the case was judged around 1872--1873. Uncle Etienne "a travaillé pour cela avec les juges" (worked with the judges). Since Georges's marriage was "antérieur de dix ans" (ten years prior) to Etienne's, it was Georges's marriage that was annulled. Marie's verdict: "tout le monde sait que cet homme exécrable et infâme était marié pour le malheur de sa femme, et que ses enfants sont bien des Babanine" (053.1876-01-30).

The annulment had devastating consequences: it rendered Georges's children technically illegitimate under Russian law, stripping them of the Babanine name and inheritance rights. This was especially catastrophic for his son Etienne.

Public Denials

In 1876, to regain his mistress Anna's favor, Georges published an article "où il dit qu'il n'a aucun rapport avec Mme Domenica de Babanine, et il va en publier un autre pour dire qu'il n'a jamais été marié avec elle et que ses filles ne sont pas légitimes" (053.1876-01-30). Marie: "c'est pire que tuer ses filles!" (It's worse than killing his daughters!).

In February 1876, Marie reports that Georges wrote formally: "M. Georges Stepanovitch de Babanine fait savoir que Mme D. Kandibine qui se dit Mme Babanine n'a pas le droit de porter ce nom attendu qu'il n'a jamais été marié avec elle" (053.1876-02-01).

Children

#Dina (c. 1853--1855 to 1914): Georges's eldest daughter, raised by Marie's grandmother who "alla la prendre sans cérémonie à sa mère et la garda toujours" (000-08). Marie's closest companion throughout the diary. Married Comte Alexandrine de Toulouse-Lautrec in 1886. See the comprehensive DINA entry. #Lola: Georges's second daughter. Visited the family in Rome with Domenica in 1876 (055.1876-03-01). Described as "pas jolie mais le soir elle peut faire de l'effet" (not pretty but in the evening she can make an impression). Married. #Etienne (c. 1858--1874): Georges's son. A brilliant student at a Russian military school ("brillant écolier et promettant d'arriver aux plus hautes destinées"). When the marriage annulment stripped him of the Babanine name -- "sans nom en Russie est bien autrement affreux qu'ici" (without a name in Russia is quite otherwise terrible) -- he committed suicide at age 15--16. In January 1874, a telegram from "Dominica Pavlovna" reported he was dying after inflicting "trois blessures avec un poignard, dans la maison de sa mère" (three wounds with a dagger, in his mother's house) (015.1874-01-25). The news was concealed from both Georges and Dina. Marie later confirms his death: "il s'est tué" (094.1882-03-12). Georges subsequently exploited his son's death for money, visiting Dina to speak of "le pauvre petit Etienne qui est mort" before asking for cash (raw carnet 7).

Scandals and Exile in Russia

Poltava Outrages

At Poltava, Georges and his brothers committed outrages that terrorized the province:
- Beat officials ("rossé des fonctionnaires")
- Played tricks on everyone ("joué des tours à tout le monde")
- Made enemies throughout the province

The governor intervened, but Grand-papa "a trouvé cela impertinent et s'est mis à fronder contre tous les gouverneurs de Poltava successivement" (000-02). A crossed-out passage reveals ongoing "affaires et des procédures qui durent encore" (legal proceedings still continuing) at the time Marie wrote.

1862 St. Petersburg Crisis

Marie's mother, her sister, and Georges traveled to Petersburg in 1862: "Georges a dû se sauver de Pétersbourg déguisé en femme et maman en est revenue mourante" (Georges had to escape from Petersburg disguised as a woman and mother returned from it dying) (000-02). Marie's mother was approximately 18--19 years old, sent to the imperial capital to petition for her brother's case.

1865 Exile to Viatka

"Georges a enfin été saisi, emballé et envoyé à Viatka entre deux gendarmes" (Georges was finally seized, packed up and sent to Viatka between two gendarmes) (000-02). Not for a specific crime, but for "mille misères et mille petites saleté qui embêtaient tout le monde" (a thousand troubles and a thousand little dirty tricks that bothered everyone). He later obtained a transfer to Akhtyrka, a small Ukrainian town (000-03).

Exile in Akhtyrka (c. 1866--1867)

Georges "régnait et commandait" (ruled and commanded) in the Babanine household during exile. Marie (aged 8--9) recalls him reading "livres horribles" to her French governess Mme Brenne -- inappropriate material that young Marie heard and understood "sans que ça me fasse penser à rien pour moi" (000-03).

Fortune Hunting and Manipulation

Attempted Marriage to Vassilissa Babanine

Georges proposed to marry his own aunt #Vassilissa_Babanine, Grand-papa's sister, for her fortune. After much scheming ("bien des tripotages que j'ignore"), he only managed to extract 12,000--15,000 rubles from her (000-04). Marie crossed out the detail in her manuscript, but the transcriber preserved it.

Orchestrating the Romanoff Scheme

Georges played the key role in ensnaring the wealthy 40-year-old bachelor #Romanoff. The family gathered at #Akhtyrka, with Marie's mother "mise en avant, très coquette" (put forward, very flirtatious) as bait. At Kharkoff, both Romanoff and Georges were "absolument étranger aux usages du monde" (absolutely foreign to the ways of society), yet Georges directed the campaign. "Poussé par Georges" (pushed by Georges), they led "une existence inconcevable": nightly theater boxes, trays of fruits and bonbons at each intermission (000-04).

Even while orchestrating the courtship, "Georges s'amouracha d'une actrice et la fit recevoir à la maison" (Georges fell in love with an actress and had her received at the house) -- scandalous behavior even by the family's standards (000-04).

The European Journey

After the grandmother's death in 1870, the family departed for Europe with Romanoff's money: "Le rêve si longtemps caressé par Georges, maman aussi" (The long-cherished dream of Georges, and maman too) (000-05). In Vienna, the first stop: "Georges y prit une fille publique qu'il amena avec lui" (Georges took a prostitute whom he brought along) -- while the family was supposedly intoxicated with the novelties of European civilization (000-05).

The Tolstoy Affair and Trial (1873)

The Assault (May 17, 1873)

The most dramatic incident of the Nice years. During dinner, a drunken Georges ("il commence à boire depuis le matin") assaulted "la Tolstoy" -- a woman in the garden. The household erupted in turmoil. Marie ran to her study, fell to her knees praying for Georges's escape. Mlle Collignon helped Georges flee by carriage toward Eze/Monaco. Two gendarmes arrived seeking "M. Babanine" but were misdirected (004.1873-05-17).

Georges's Refusal to Appear

Georges fled to Monaco and refused to return for trial, despite weeks of family pleading. "Georges ne veut pas venir ici pour comparaître devant le tribunal, ce serait si facile" (005.1873-05-21). Marie, her mother, and lawyer Lefèvre traveled to Monaco to persuade him -- two hours of arguing produced nothing (005.1873-06-01). "Tous ces jours, toutes nos connaissances allaient à Monaco pour persuader Georges de venir" (005.1873-06-07).

Marie prayed fervently: "Je prierai Dieu de lui inspirer la raison, de le faire venir" (005.1873-06-02). She credited God when Georges finally agreed: "C'est Dieu que je remercie car je L'ai prié d'inspirer le devoir à Georges" (005.1873-06-07).

First Trial (May 31, 1873)

In absentia: "condamné à un mois de prison, cinquante francs d'amende et deux mille francs de dommages et intérêts" (005.1873-05-31). Marie: "Il est toujours ainsi, ce Georges au lieu de se présenter et de dévoiler l'affaire, il se cache."

Second Trial (June 21, 1873)

Georges finally appeared. Mayor Malausséna spoke "splendidement" in his defense, but "il n'y a pas eu un seul témoin étranger." Even Patton, who had "crié le plus" (protested loudest) about the injustice, testified against Georges. Convicted: six days prison, 500 francs fine (006.1873-06-21).

Appeal at Aix (November 1873)

Marie was pressed into service writing documents for the appeal. "Je ne puis pas préparer mes leçons, on me fait écrire des je ne sais pas quoi pour l'affaire à Aix" (012.1873-11-11). Georges was acquitted at Aix; Mme Tolstoy received only a 500-franc fine for the two slaps (012.1873-11-18): "triomphe complet" (012.1873-11-20).

Anna: The Mistress

Georges's long-term mistress Anna was a persistent source of scandal. She lived with him separately but her presence permeated family life:
- Brought to family dinners: During the family's absence, Georges "a osé amener Anna à dîner" at the family home (009.1873-09-07). Marie: "comment a-t-il osé!"
- Visible at theater: "Vis-à-vis Anna, Georges et Lefèvre" at the French Theater -- Dina forced to spend the evening "devant elle la maîtresse de son père" (009.1873-09-13)
- Domestic violence: Anna had Georges "garrotté et conduit hors de chez elle" (bound and led out of her home); "le bail est à son nom" (the lease was in her name). "Malgré toutes ses horreurs il aime cette femme" (027.1874-11-29)
- Scene at the family home: Anna came "faire une scène" and said "des impertinences telles" that the aunt sent for maman (027.1874-11-27)
- Monaco ball: Georges came "tout confus" to ask how to dress Anna for a Monaco ball; maman generously gave her pearl gray satin dress (016.1874-02-02)
- Abandoned repeatedly: His mistress ("sa Silène" -- ironic classical reference to Bacchus's drunken companion) abandoned him repeatedly: "pour la vingt-cinquième ou trentième fois depuis sept ans" (072.1877-06-23)

The Threat of Expulsion from Nice (December 1874)

In December 1874, the family faced the threat of collective expulsion from Nice due to Georges's scandals. "Toute la colonie étrangère lasse des scandales continuels de Georges et surtout révoltée par son histoire avec Prodgers" wanted to petition the new prefect, M. Decrais, to expel Georges from the Alpes-Maritimes department (027.1874-12-02). Worse, the family itself risked being asked to leave. Marie's reaction was catastrophic: "j'ai pensé mourir de honte et de désespoir." She locked herself in her room, fell on a mattress weeping, and "j'eus un instant l'idée de m'empoisonner avec quelque acide de ma chimie" (the thought of poisoning herself with chemistry acids) (027.1874-12-02). She confronted Georges directly: "ce monstre a causé notre malheur." The problem was compounded by maman walking with Anna in Monaco and grand-papa taking Anna riding in the family carriage (027.1874-12-03).

Impact on Paul

Marie feared Georges's corrupting influence on her brother Paul: "surtout Georges va se poser comme un devoir de pervertir Paul et d'en faire ce qu'il est lui-même, de lui ôter le respect pour sa mère" (006.1873-06-25). Papa and Georges "prêchent des choses si affreuses, juste pour empoisonner Paul" and "anéantissent le respect pour maman." Her only solution: boarding school. Marie later wrote to her mother: "Au lieu de me parler de votre amour, rappelez-vous que vous m'avez moralement assassinée vous et votre Georges" (091.1881-02-09). By 1876 she feared: "Paul sera un second Georges, je le crains" (053.1876-02-01).

Grandfather's Death and Inheritance Crisis (1877--1878)

Deathbed Behavior

As Grand-papa lay dying in December 1877, Georges exploited the situation: "Le bon Georges profite de l'occasion pour se griser et rage parce qu'on ne peut plus rien faire au testament" (076.1877-12-11). He wept about his inheritance while embracing his dying father -- Marie's acid observation: "je pleurerais mon argent et ragerais et ne le cacherais pas mais je n'oserais pas l'approcher" (076.1877-12-10). Simultaneously: "Georges insulte et bat tout le monde" (076.1877-12-16).

Violence During the Funeral (August 1878)

During the grandfather's funeral vigil, Georges's drunken violence reached extremes: "horreurs subies" beside the corpse, "insults against his own dead mother," and "mots odieux criés à côté du cadavre" (082.1878-08-30). He nearly strangled the aunt in the dining room. Mlle Oelsnitz fainted from shock. Father Vassilieff, the Russian Orthodox priest, had to interrupt the service and threaten sacrilege charges when Georges tried to "insult the priests" (082.1878-08-30).

Marie physically prevented Georges from kicking her aunt in the face: "tirant ma tante en arrière et la forçant à s'asseoir par terre" (082.1878-08-30).

Inheritance

In Grand-papa's will (dictated to Marie in July 1873), Georges received part of the estate, including the house with library and paintings (006.1873-07-01). However, the marriage annulment complicated Dina's inheritance of 50,000 rubles, which was placed in maman's name "pour que M. Georges n'y touche point" (082.1878-09-02). Uncle Alexandre was poised to challenge this arrangement.

Paris Years: Creditors, Police, and Expulsion (1877--1882)

Pursuit to Paris

Georges followed the family from Nice to Paris. "Nice ne suffit pas! On me poursuit partout! Ma mère a donné notre adresse à Georges qui est à minuit, ivre, hideux, chez nous!" (072.1877-07-02). Marie's fury at her mother for providing the address: "il faut vraiment qu'elle soit ou folle ou infâme!"

Debts and Creditors

Georges's debts were a constant humiliation. "Des créanciers de Georges dans l'antichambre. Toujours et partout!" -- Marie had a nervous attack at dinner (077.1877-12-26). When creditor M. de Mertens came to demand payment, "ce monsieur a paraît-il écrit à Nice et a dit des vilenies de moi à Triphon." Marie: "Moi, pour des dettes de Georges. O justice!!" (075.1877-10-01). The aunt was "assaillie par les créanciers de Georges" (073.1877-07-25).

Police Intervention

In July 1877, Georges was threatened with prison for debts and the Russian ambassador was to be notified. Baron de Mertens obtained a 24-hour delay from the prefect of police. Marie paid the debts: "je le fais pour moi. Il m'est impossible de demeurer dans la même ville avec ce cher oncle. Sa Silène l'a définitivement abandonné" (072.1877-07-10).

In February 1878, Marie went to the police commissioner with her mother and Mme de Mouzay, but the law could not act against Georges while his father (grandfather) lived (078.1878-02-26). After the grandfather's death, Marie visited Albert Gigot, Prefect of Police of Paris (1876--1879), with Mme de Mouzay as witness. Gigot agreed to act but required a written request from maman -- who had blocked the same action "eighteen months ago" (082.1878-09-16).

Domestic Terror

Georges's violence in the family apartment included:
- Kicking his aunt in the ribs and stomach with boots (082.1878-08-31)
- Nearly strangling his sister (082.1878-08-31)
- Arriving with a "voyou" (thug) -- blocked by the concierge (082.1878-09-03)
- Coming "la nuit crier et effrayer tout le monde" (083.1878-12-21)
- Arriving with "une foule d'hommes, ivres comme lui" and ringing the bell for over fifteen minutes (079.1878-04-14)

The police commissioner's response to the concierge's report was chilling: "when one of them has been murdered, we'll come up" (082.1878-08-31).

Family Enabling

A central theme of the diary is the family's systematic enabling of Georges. Marie's grandmother saw Georges as a "malheureux enfant" (poor unfortunate child) and on her deathbed bequeathed his care to maman, "qui a cru dès lors obéir aux vœux de sa mère mourante en sacrifiant sa réputation, sa vie et ses enfants aux monstruosités de cet être ignoble" (000-09). The entire family was complicit: "les autres frères quittaient tout et faisaient quelquefois quatre à cinq cents lieues en chaise de poste pour Georges, ses sœurs sont allées dans les prisons, dans les endroits de police pour Georges, on a trinqué et mangé avec des gendarmes afin qu'ils lui soient plus doux... Pouah..." (000-09). Marie repeatedly tried to break the pattern. Her mother's response was to call her "comme Georges" -- likening the daughter who fought to save the family to the brother who destroyed it (091.1881-03-03). When Marie screamed for help during an assault, her mother called her "terriblement mal élevée de crier comme une poissonnière" (terribly ill-bred to scream like a fishwife) (082.1878-09-10). The family's position: "Pendant deux heures je les ai écoutées se consolant les unes les autres et calmant leur conscience en rejetant toutes les fautes sur moi et en disant que je suis punie par le ciel parce que je persécute le malheureux Georges" (085.1879-05-23).

Marie's Psychological Strategies

Marie developed specific techniques for managing Georges, showing remarkable psychological insight for a teenager: 1. Non-confrontation during drinking: "Quand Georges se grise... Moi, tout le contraire, je le considère comme un malade avec lequel on doit être d'accord, s'il veut briser les fenêtres, brise-les mon cher, veux-tu que je t'aide?" (012.1873-11-02). This calmed him while others' attempts to stop his drinking "l'irritent." 2. Building trust: "Je puis seule calmer Georges, les autres l'irritent." She avoided being a "sermon ambulant" (walking sermon) and instead showed herself "un peu folichon" (a little playful) to inspire confidence (007.1873-07-23). 3. Honest self-assessment: "Je ne prêche jamais de fausse morale" -- she told her family she herself would get drunk if she were a man, which gave her words credibility with Georges (007.1873-07-23).

False Death Report and Final Appearances (1882)

In March 1882, word reached the family that Georges had died. Marie experienced complex grief: "Ah! quelle horrible chose que de se reprocher quelque dureté envers un être mort!... Il me faut me souvenir de tout ce qu'il nous a fait pour m'excuser." She softened: "j'en arrive à me dire qu'il n'était que fou, malade, mais bon, mais aimant, mais malheureux... Je le vois sous la porte cochère... Il paraît qu'il a pleuré quand on lui a dit que j'étais très malade" (094.1882-03-12). She reflected on his wasted life: "si malheureux toute sa vie ayant tout pour être un des heureux de ce monde. Saccagé sa vie pour des niaiseries, sali toute sa famille; enfin recevant une grosse fortune de son père et se faisant voler, piller faute d'aller en Russie, de peur d'affronter la police correctionnelle n'ayant jamais commis que des vilenies légères et toujours se cachant comme un criminel" (094.1882-03-12). But Georges was not dead. Three days later: "Canaille d'homme, il est allé chez le vieux prince Karageorgevitch lui demander vingt francs et raconter que nous aurions voulu l'enterrer vivant et qu'on le ruine" (094.1882-03-15). After this date, references to Georges diminish sharply in the diary.

Marie's Epithets for Georges

Marie's vocabulary for Georges is among the richest invective in the diary:
- "cette canaille" (this scoundrel) -- 000-09, passim
- "ce monstre" (this monster) -- 000-03, 053.1876-01-30, passim
- "ce misérable" (this wretch) -- 000-03
- "cet être ignoble" (this ignoble being) -- 000-09
- "ce cher trésor" (this dear treasure) -- HEAVY IRONY -- 000-03
- "cet adorable Georges" -- HEAVY IRONY -- 050.1875-12-02
- "mon très honoré oncle" (my most honored uncle) -- IRONIC -- 028.1874-12-28
- "cette horreur" (this horror) -- 015.1874-01-08
- "âne," "bête stupide" (donkey, stupid beast) -- 005.1873-05-31
- "vagabond" (vagrant/scoundrel) -- 004.1873-05-17
- "rara avis" (rare bird -- IRONIC Latin) -- 053.1876-01-30
- "que la peste étrangle, étouffe et défigure pour l'éternité" (may the plague strangle, choke, and disfigure him for eternity) -- 084.1879-03-31
- "que tous les maligni demones étranglent" (may all evil demons strangle him) -- 053.1876-01-30
- "un homme dont le nom souillerait ma plume" (a man whose name would soil my pen) -- 082.1878-08-30

Historical Context

Georges Babanine represents a recognizable type in Russian provincial aristocracy: the gifted ne'er-do-well whose family's honor code compelled endless rescue operations. The family system of "administrative exile" (sending troublesome nobles to provincial cities like Viatka under police supervision) was a standard tool of tsarist governance, used for both political dissidents and social menaces. The family's enabling pattern -- sisters visiting prisons, brothers traveling hundreds of leagues, bribing gendarmes with food and drink -- reflects the intense clan solidarity of the Ukrainian petty nobility (szlachta tradition), where family honor was collective and one member's disgrace tainted all. Marie understood this with bitter clarity: "les scandales de Georges Babanine regardent-ils Mmes Bashkirtseff et Romanoff, on n'est pas responsable de la conduite d'un frère vivant séparément" (027.1874-12-02). The marriage annulment that rendered Georges's children illegitimate exposes the intersection of Orthodox canon law and Russian civil law in the 1870s. The prohibition against a man and his brother marrying a mother and her daughter respectively was rooted in the Orthodox concept of spiritual kinship barriers to marriage.

Diary Coverage

Georges appears in approximately 134 diary entries across carnets 000--094 (1873--1882), with the heaviest concentration in:
- Carnet 000 (1884 preface): Comprehensive retrospective
- Carnets 004--007 (May--August 1873): Tolstoy affair and trial
- Carnets 024--028 (October 1874 -- January 1875): Prodgers assault, expulsion threat, family crisis
- Carnet 053 (January--February 1876): Marriage annulment revelation, tirade on his crimes
- Carnets 072--079 (June 1877 -- April 1878): Paris pursuit, creditors, domestic violence
- Carnet 082 (August--September 1878): Grandfather's death, funeral violence, police
- Carnet 094 (March 1882): False death report and aftermath After 1882, references largely cease as the family successfully distanced itself from Georges.

Related Entries

- #Grand_papa -- His father Etienne Babanine, who fought authorities to defend him, then starved him
- #Grand_maman -- His mother Julie Cornelius, whom he beat and who died bequeathing his care to maman
- #Maman -- His sister Maria Stepanovna, who sacrificed everything for him
- #Dina -- His daughter, Marie's cousin (Comprehensive entry)
- #Lola -- His second daughter
- #Etienne -- His son, who committed suicide after the marriage annulment
- #Domenica -- His wife, née Issaievitch
- #Anna -- His long-term mistress
- #Drillat -- His disreputable companion, professional gambler
- #Alexandre -- His brother, who benefited from his disgrace
- #Paul -- Marie's brother, whom Georges corrupted
- #Villa_Baquis -- Nice residence they both despised
- #Viatka -- Place of his 1865 exile
- #Poltava -- Where he committed his scandals
- #Akhtyrka -- Second exile city; site of Romanoff scheme
- #Romanoff -- The wealthy bachelor trapped by the family

Research Notes