Adelaida Ivanovna MIUSOVA
Audio text — Adelaida Ivanovna MIUSOVA — Аделаида Ивановна Миусова
Given name — Adelaida (Аделаида)
Patronymic — Ivanovna (Ивановна) — the daughter of Ivan (Иван)
Family name — Miusova / Karamazova (Миусова / Карамазова)
The first wife of Fyodor Pavlovich, from the rather wealthy and noble family of Miusov nobles, who were also landowners in our district.
Dmitri's mother.
Cousin of Pyotr Alexandrovich Miusov
She abandoned Dmitri when he was 3 years old, left for Petersburg, where she soon died, reportedly from typhus or starvation.
The nobility and dignity of her origins were reflected in her name: Adelaide comes from Old German, where "adal" means noble, and "heid" means status or class. The surname of Adelaide Ivanovna can be considered metropolitan due to its connection to the names of two Moscow streets - 1st and 2nd Miusskaya, as well as Miusskaya Square.
After marriage, she took her husband's surname — and became Karamazova.
Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov was married twice, to women who were opposites in everything: appearance, character, and background. Dostoevsky gives both wives the same patronymic — Ivanovna, as a similarity in their fates, despite their very different origins.