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The French proverb: Il n'y a que les montagnes qui ne se rencontrent pas — only mountains never meet again. ↩
Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire on 24 April 1877 (the Russo-Turkish War). Le cours: the exchange rate, on which the family's income from Russia depended. ↩
Michele Gordigiani (1835–1909), celebrated Florentine portrait painter, who had painted Queen Victoria in London in 1867 (en.wikipedia «Michele Gordigiani»). ↩