A minor point, but perhaps worth noting: Kondratiy Ryleev's
initials, KR was a penname of the highborn poet Konstantin Romanov
(1858-1915, a grandson of Nicholas I, the czar who approved Ryleev's
execution). In Ada (1.38) Van describes KR as "wretched poet and happy
husband" (cf. Shnap's words on human happiness in The
Event).
In the alphabet, the L, M, N, O, P series
mentioned in my previous post is between K and
R: ...K, L, M, N, O, P,
R...
Alexey Sklyarenko