Speaking of malina, "raspberry", I forgot
to mention Malinniki, the Osipov-Vulf estate in the province of Tver. In his EO
Commentary (vol. Two, p. 535) VN writes that Anette Vulf's letters to
Pushkin (who "deliberately and cynically debauched" Anette during his enforced
rustication at Mikhaylovskoe, province of Pskov), in 1826, from
Malinniki, are heart-rending. Anette's mother, Praskovia Osipov (née Vyndomski,
in the first marriage Vulf), owner of Trigorsk (the estate near Pushkin's
Mikhaylovskoe), is a namesake of Countess Praskovia de Prey, a
neighbor of the Veen-Durmanov family, owners of Ardis, in
Ada.
Incidentally, de Prey is a wine-merchant (not as
good as Levet) in Tolstoy's Anna Karenin.
Alexey Sklyarenko