Natalia Tuchkova
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Natalia Tuchkova was a Russian peasant woman born in the Ukraine in 1818 who through sheer will and sexual prowess rose to the first ranks of Moscow society.
Made specially famous because of her liaison with Alexander Herzen, while being married to Nikolay Ogarev, the famous theatrical director from noble roots, she was able to turn the social liabilty into an asset writing afterwards the novel "Me too, You not". This was an obvious pun to the bisexual relationship between her husband and her lover. She died at the age of 52 in a boating accident, ironically, her death brought the rupture of the relationship between her husband her playboy/author lover.
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