momonoff

Updated: May 21, 2025

A brave thought came into her mind, a manly thought, outside of all the pettiness of women, a thought which intoxicates for a moment, and which explains, perhaps, the clemency of the Semiramis of Russia when she married her young and beautiful rival to Momonoff.

Honoré de Balzac - Modeste Mignon

A young Count de Momonoff raised a regiment for the state, and would only serve in it as a sublieutenant; a Countess Orloff, amiable and wealthy in the Asiatic style, gave the fourth of her income.

Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine) Staël - Ten Years' Exile: Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness De Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself, during the Years 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1813, and Now First Published from the Original Manuscript, by Her Son.

Even the least imaginative of them looked askance at the tall houses, at the open doors of the empty churches, and they kept together for company's sake. Charles's rooms were in the Momonoff Palace, where even the youngest lieutenant had vast apartments assigned to him.

Henry Seton Merriman - Barlasch of the Guard