Blavatsky's Spiritual Séance. П.

Plot and characters:
One of the episodes of the life of the great intellectual of the XIX century Blavatsky HP In the early 1860s, Blavatsky came to Tiflis, where her relatives in the house of Fadeev and Witte arranged spiritualist séances. Gymnasium student Witte S. Yu, a cousin of Blavatsky, remembered these events as follows: "I remember how every evening the highest Tiflis society gathered for these séances ... As it seemed to me, my mother, my aunt [Nadezhda] Fadeeva and even my uncle Rostislav Fadeev - all were into it. .... for example, once in front of me at the request of one of those present in another room began to play the piano, completely closed, and no one at the piano at the time.
The higher Tiflis society at this time, in particular, was represented by Count Vorontsov-Dashkov I. I., Count Orlov-Davydov A. В.
Notes on the Fadeyevs and Vita's house in Tiflis: "...In the long, tall and gloomy hall hung family portraits of Fadeev and Dolgorukov...."