Turgenev described the life of Louise Héritte, eldest daughter of Pauline Viardot

Turgenev described in some detail the madness of Pauline Viardot's eldest daughter Louise Héritte, who, instead of marrying the Frenchman with whom she was involved, married, against all persuasion, a certain Héritte and very soon came to hate him. Allegedly for his narrowness of mind. She bore a son and left the Cape of Good Hope, where Héritte was consul, going to Baden. But she could not settle in her parents' house either, and fled to Petersburg, where she began teaching music at the conservatoire. Louise oddly refused the lawful allowance from her husband (he paid her 10,000 francs a month) and lived on her salary alone. And then, as so often happens in Petersburg, she fell ill on account of the climate. Her road then led to Yekaterinoslav, where she became a dependant of some acquaintances on their estate, still not accepting the very pension due to her from her lawful husband, who in the meantime was bringing up their child in Copenhagen. In short, she went about in rags for half her life, with wealthy parents and a wealthy husband. She wrote a few pieces of music and died.