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photo by beebowhat is a grishkina?
In Russia, surnames come in pairs: upon marrying the great poet, Natalia Goncharova became Madame Pushkina. Grishkina is the feminine form of Grishkin.
T. S. Eliot's "Whispers of Immortality" features a courtesan named Grishkin, who is identified by B. C. Southam, following Ezra Pound, as "Serafima Astafieva (1876-1934), a Russian dancer with the Diaghilev company who opened her own ballet school in London. Pound introduced her to Eliot, `with the firm intuito that a poem wd result & intention that it should'; and elsewhere Pound recollected that once `I took Parson Elyot to see the Prima Ballerina and it evoked "Grushkin"'".
The stress goes on the first syllable.
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