Her Memoirs
After his death she wrote or dictated her reminiscence about their marriage. While they were printed in 1894 and reprinted in 1913, they were never made widely known. In this document, according to Tchaikovsky scholar Alexander Poznansky, she comes across consistently as naive, superficial and not very intelligent. She is also very coherent. This would seem to further delay the more eccentric view of her given by Modest. Her memoirs contain no trace of mental abnormality. They reveal a woman devoted to the memory of her husband, an appreciation of his greatness and the vague feeling of an enormous misunderstanding having taken place between them. "Likewise," Poznansky adds, "nothing in the reminiscences gives any grounds for suspecting them for being a forgery. On the contrary, the genuineness of the intonation, the idiosyncratic style, and the wealth of detail all attest its authenticity."
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