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Zaïtchenko

Russian merchant who Marie previously referred to as "28" - her numerological admirer from church.

Zamiatine

The Zamiatine family were legal adversaries of Marie's mother in a lawsuit in Russia in 1880. Marie refers to them with evident hostility.

Zampa

- Type: people - mentioned

Zankovsky Family

A Ukrainian family involved in gambling and what Marie describes as predatory social behavior. The family includes a mother, a younger daughter, and a son ("le frere de la belle"). Marie portrays them as a corrupt clique who ensnare young men for financial exploitation.

Zasedsky

«Zasedsky», one of the grey-clad Russian loungers on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice: «le bataclan gris en chapeaux de paille, Zasedsky, le Rodionoff noir et d'autres saletés qui sont tous et toujours en gris et tournent invariablement, une canne dans leurs mains croisées sur le dos, quelques-uns portent des pince-nez et ils ont toujours l'air de discourir sur des affaires d'Etat» (024.0277, 9 October 1874). Mon Journal t.4 index: «Zasedsky (M.), 174».

Zeller

- Type: people - mentioned

Zenkovski

Person Tchernichoff resembles, along with "vieux Emile."

Zeretel

- Type: people - mentioned

Zigouzin

Zimmer

- Type: people - mentioned

Zoe

Zoe Pelikan

Zoé Pelikan, a young Russian woman of Nice, the daughter of M. Pelikan (a paralysed old gentleman, kindly and eager to oblige, who is received by the family; see [Pelikan](PELIKAN.md)). Marie meets her on 5 November 1874 and finds her «très élégante personne et je crois exempte des envies et des cachotteries des Howard» (025.0156); she is twenty, brown-haired, small-featured, «de ma taille, bien faite, mais ses vingt ans lui font la gorge un peu forte» (025.0248). Her marriage to a junior naval officer named Cross is announced on 2 March 1875, and by 1880 she is Mme Cross. Mon Journal indices: t.4 «Pelikan (Mlle Zoé), 198, 200, 203-204, 207-209, 214, 273, 304, 343» and «Cross (M), futur mari de Zoé Pelikan, 329, 343»; t.13 «Pélikann (Zoé, devenue Mme Cross)».

Zualart

Man in Lambertye's social circle whom Marie finds particularly repulsive.

Zuave

- Type: people - mentioned

Zuccarini

A dinner guest in Paris on 10 July 1884, described by Marie in some detail — the diary's own words are essentially all we have on him: "Ce Zuccarini a été aide de camp de feu duc de Parme, une épave de la Nice impériale. Il a bien cinquante [ans] passés mais à trente pas, c'est un tout jeune homme, assez petit, mince, petite moustache noire. Il tourne déjà au petit vieux-jeune et mourra sous cette enveloppe de petit jeune homme." (105.0106) — "This Zuccarini was aide-de-camp to the late Duke of Parma, a wreck of imperial Nice. He's well past fifty but from thirty paces looks quite a young man — rather short, thin, small black mustache. He's already turning into a little old-young man and will die inside that envelope of a young man."

Zucchini (Rome, 1876)

Marquis or count Zucchini, one of the young Roman nobles of the Caccia-Club "barcaccia" (with Pandola, Belmonte, Cesaro), a figure of fun for Marie and for Pietro Antonelli, who shares the joke. She first takes him for the man she had called "Cesaro".

Zulart

- Type: people - mentioned

Zunica

- Type: people - mentioned

Zurlo

[Research needed]

Zveguintzoff

Stub entry — needs research.

Zveguinzoff

Member of the Russian aristocratic community in Nice, part of the elegant society that Marie observes and envies.