Vatka

Overview

Vyatka (now Kirov), in the Ural foothills, a common place of administrative exile in nineteenth-century Russia (source footnote at 091.0505; Wikipedia, «Kirov, Kirov Oblast»). Marie writes «Vatka». It is where her uncle Georges was deported.

In Marie's diary

• 1881-04-22 (091.0505, Paris): of Georges: «cette vie de proscrit, de criminel, a eu pour origine quelques taquineries aux fonctionnaires de Poltava ... Puis d'autres scandales, l'ivrognerie, la déportation à Vatka, mais pas un fait grave.» Footnote: Georges, her mother's brother, was exiled there as a result of his provincial troubles.