Alexandra Ivanova Uspenskaia, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, between 1870 and 1875. While discussing Count Leo Tolstoys unsympathetic attitude toward Russias political exiles, Kennan recalled the famous writers refusal to respond to a plea for help by Madam Uspenskaia, a wife of one of the political convicts at Kara. Captioned in Russian: Born to the Zasulich family, youngest of three sisters. Photo taken during the Nechaief process.