The grave of Mariska Mikszáth

“Regarding the building [Mikszáth Kálmán Memorial House], Mikszáth himself wrote these lines in his short story Galandáné asszonyom: Anyone who has ever been to Bodok will have certainly noticed the little white house that was built right next to the cemetery, and all the windows of which look out onto the cemetery. My mother had it built there. She had someone there who she always loved to be close to. The someone lying in the cemetery is the writer's sister, Mariska, who was taken by death at the age of 17 as a blooming beauty.” * ; ; We can read this about the tomb on the Mikszáth Kálmán Memorial House website: ; “… The family that lost the case drilled a hole in the top of the one and a half cubits high granite stone, and since the size of the symbol was not specified in the verdict, they had a cross placed in the hole as big as two sewing needles placed on top of each other. (Kálmán Mikszáth: The Humor of the Gravestones, 1878) ; ; People can always find things that can be argued about and that can be shown to be right. In this case, the Catholics could not bear the fact that there was no cross on the Protestant grave in their cemetery, and the family was forced to put a cross on the gravestone afterwards. The story is true. The grave of Mariska Mikszáth in Sklabonya is clearly visible from the outside with the grayish-colored gravestone, on the top of which there is the hole in which the cross, which has since rusted and was the size of a sewing needle, was embedded.” ** ; ; The renovation of the tombstone in 2014 was initiated and paid for by Sándor Pásztor - the president of the Mikszáth Society in Balassagyarmat. (Reported by András Böhm, member of the VICTORIA Cultural Association.)