Often, telluric points are linked to a person’s passage on earth. Places where a person lived, loved, and suffered can tell a great deal about her. Marie Struve was born in Nice, a few steps from its Russian cathedral, where her father, Alexander Eltchaninoff, served as a priest for the large Russian immigrant community. She learned to speak Niçois, Russian, and French at the same time. Later in life, she acquired a lemon tree that helped her remember the Mediterranean town of her childhood.