The heroine of Van's first novel Letters from Terra
is Theresa, a girl from Terra (Antiterra's twin planet).
In his "Letters of a Russian Traveller" (1790-99) Karamzin
mentions Teresa and Faldoni, the passionate young lovers who committed suicide
in Lyon.
Tereza and Faldoni are also characters in Dostoevski's
epistolary novel Bednye lyudi (Poor Folk, 1846). "Tereza" is an old
servant woman (who is actually Finnish and whose real name is not mentioned) who
brings Makar Devushkin's letters to Varen'ka Dobrosyolov and Varen'ka's letters
to Makar.
The letter L was called lyudi in the old
Russian alphabet. L is Lenin's initial. Like Karamzin, Lenin was born in
Simbirsk (renamed Ul'yanovsk after Lenin's death).
Alexey Sklyarenko