After helping her to nurse Andrey at Agavia Ranch through a couple
of acrimonious years (she begrudged Ada every poor little hour devoted to
collecting, mounting, and rearing!), and then taking exception to Ada's choosing
the famous and excellent Grotonovich Clinic (for her husband's endless periods
of treatment) instead of Princess Alashin's select sanatorium, Dorothy
Vinelander retired to a subarctic monastery town (Ilemna, now Novostabia) where
eventually she married a Mr Brod or Bred, tender and passionate, dark and
handsome, who traveled in eucharistials and other sacramental objects throughout
the Severnïya Territorii and who subsequently was to direct, and still may be
directing half a century later, archeological reconstructions at Goreloe (the
'Lyaskan Herculanum'); what treasures he dug up in matrimony is another
question. (3.8)
Bred
("Delirium," 1955) is a novel by Aldanov. In Natasha's dream Tiberius
(Roman emperor in 14-37) is a teacher in her Kiev school who tries to
dissuade her from marrying Shell:
Сон был радостный, бессмысленный, немного
беспокойный. И вдруг в другое нелепое ворвался император Тиберий. Он был теперь
учителем в её киевской школе. Читал об отзовистах и принимал в ней близкое
участие. "Не выходи за него замуж! -- сказал император, -- разве ты не видишь,
что он обманщик? Ты сама вначале так думала, напрасно ты это теперь скрываешь.
Беги от него поскорее, подальше". ("Delirium," chapter
VI)
Pompeii and Herculaneum were destroyed by the eruption of
Vesuvius in 79 in the reign of Titus (79-81). Titus Andronicus
(1588-93) is a tragedy by Shakespeare.
Andronicus brings to mind Andrey Andreevich Vinelander,
Dorothy's brother who marries Ada Veen (Van's "Pompeianella," 1.1).
Alexey Sklyarenko