Over time, Garnett’s detractors would make her out to be a prim and proper smotherer of the wild (male) Russian soul. In Russia, the abolition of serfdom was part of a series of reforms meant to stave off revolution. Stepniak wrote a profile of Zasulich for his book “Underground Russia” (1882), a study of the country’s new revolutionaries. In England, “Underground Russia” was a smash hit, going through three printings the year it was translated. In a 1991 biography of Constance, Richard Garnett, the pair’s grandson, writes that “the young lovers had a row about Land Nationalization.”

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Persons: prim, Nabokov, Gogol, “, Kornei Chukovsky, Garnett, Stepniak, ”, uncouth, Constance Black, Alexander II, Ivan Turgenev’s, Vera Zasulich, Zasulich, Russia ”, Clementina, Eleanor Marx, Karl’s, William Morris’s, Edward Garnett, Edward, Constance, Richard Garnett Organizations: British Museum, Russia, Fabian Society Locations: Russian, Soviet, Crimean, Russia, Brighton, St . Petersburg, Europe, England, London