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Yakovleff

Russian member of the Nice winter colony.

Yalta

Yalta (Russian: Ялта, Ukrainian: Ялта) is a resort city on the south coast of the Crimean Peninsula, on the Black Sea. In the 1870s, it served as a fashionable destination for Russian imperial family and nobility.

Yonina

A Poltava magistrate in 1876, said to be the lover of [Mme Miloradovitch](MME_MILORADOVITCH.md), Gritz's mother. The Mon Journal t.9 index has «Yonina, magistrat (amant de Mme Miloradovitch)». His first name is not given.

Yorke

- Type: people - aristocracy

Youlia Stepanovna

Russian woman whom Marie calls "la sorcière" (the witch). Gives Marie disapproving looks at social events.

Young Prince

- Type: people - mentioned

Yourkoff

Nicolas Yourkoff, nicknamed «Pâris», the lover and constant companion of Mme Nina Sapogenikoff, for whom she «a quitté la Russie, sa maison, ses richesses, sa position» (056/1876-03-28; the husband, M. Sapogenikoff, only visits twice a year: «Madame demeure à Genève avec les enfants et M. Yourkoff, un ami qui ne les quitte jamais, c'est comme une seule famille», 006/1873-06-16). He appears from Geneva in May 1873 (005/1873-05-24: «Mr Yourkoff with Alexis and Cima … came to go to the circus with us») through the Nice years 1874-75 (024-049) as Nina's escort, and dies by suicide at Monaco in March 1876: «Hier, Yourkoff s'est tué à Monaco» (056/1876-03-28), «Il n'avait que trente-six ans» (056/1876-03-29). After his death he remains Marie's emblem of a ruined love: she is compared to «Nina qui ne voulait rien manger après la mort de Yourkoff» (070.0676, Naples 1877), and in August 1876 Nina seems «tout aussi gaie que si Yourkoff n'avait jamais existé» (064/1876-08-09). The Bains Georges scene of June 1877 recalls him and Nina as a «lost circle» of her earlier Nice life (071.0588, 071/1877-06-07).

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