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Deleted Sergey Makovsky who was not born at the time when Turgenev organised the matinee. It must have been his father Konstantin Makosky but I found no reference of him and the library in Google. Somebody else may know more about it. – Edit: Konstantin lived and worked in Paris: "Wilfried Zeisler reveals the artist’s little-known Paris period" [1] -- Abc10 ( talk) 07:41, 24 March 2017 (UTC) reply