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"
No
,
he
's
not
dead
--
it
's
impossible
!
"
she
told
herself
and
approached
him
,
and
repressing
the
terror
that
seized
her
,
she
pressed
her
lips
to
his
cheek
.
But
she
stepped
back
immediately
.
All
the
force
of
the
tenderness
she
had
been
feeling
for
him
vanished
instantly
and
was
replaced
by
a
feeling
of
horror
at
what
lay
there
before
her
"
No
,
he
is
no
more
!
He
is
not
,
but
here
where
he
was
is
something
unfamiliar
and
hostile
,
some
dreadful
,
terrifying
,
and
repellent
mystery
!
"
And
hiding
her
face
in
her
hands
,
Princess
Mary
sank
into
the
arms
of
the
doctor
,
who
held
her
up
.
In
the
presence
of
Tíkhon
and
the
doctor
the
women
washed
what
had
been
the
prince
,
tied
his
head
up
with
a
handkerchief
that
the
mouth
should
not
stiffen
while
open
,
and
with
another
handkerchief
tied
together
the
legs
that
were
already
spreading
apart
.
Then
they
dressed
him
in
uniform
with
his
decorations
and
placed
his
shriveled
little
body
on
a
table
.
Heaven
only
knows
who
arranged
all
this
and
when
,
but
it
all
got
done
as
if
of
its
own
accord
.
Toward
night
candles
were
burning
round
his
coffin
,
a
pall
was
spread
over
it
,
the
floor
was
strewn
with
sprays
of
juniper
,
a
printed
band
was
tucked
in
under
his
shriveled
head
,
and
in
a
corner
of
the
room
sat
a
chanter
reading
the
psalms
.
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Just
as
horses
shy
and
snort
and
gather
about
a
dead
horse
,
so
the
inmates
of
the
house
and
strangers
crowded
into
the
drawing
room
round
the
coffin
--
the
Marshal
,
the
village
Elder
,
peasant
women
--
and
all
with
fixed
and
frightened
eyes
,
crossing
themselves
,
bowed
and
kissed
the
old
prince
's
cold
and
stiffened
hand
.
Until
Prince
Andrew
settled
in
Boguchárovo
its
owners
had
always
been
absentees
,
and
its
peasants
were
of
quite
a
different
character
from
those
of
Bald
Hills
.
They
differed
from
them
in
speech
,
dress
,
and
disposition
.
They
were
called
steppe
peasants
.
The
old
prince
used
to
approve
of
them
for
their
endurance
at
work
when
they
came
to
Bald
Hills
to
help
with
the
harvest
.
or
to
dig
ponds
and
ditches
,
but
he
disliked
them
for
their
boorishness
.
Prince
Andrew
's
last
stay
at
Boguchárovo
,
when
he
introduced
hospitals
and
schools
and
reduced
the
quitrent
the
peasants
had
to
pay
,
had
not
softened
their
disposition
but
had
on
the
contrary
strengthened
in
them
the
traits
of
character
the
old
prince
called
boorishness
.
Various
obscure
rumors
were
always
current
among
them
:
at
one
time
a
rumor
that
they
would
all
be
enrolled
as
Cossacks
;
at
another
of
a
new
religion
to
which
they
were
all
to
be
converted
;
then
of
some
proclamation
of
the
Tsar
's
and
of
an
oath
to
the
Tsar
Paul
in
1797
(
in
connection
with
which
it
was
rumored
that
freedom
had
been
granted
them
but
the
landowners
had
stopped
it
)
,
then
of
Peter
Fëdorovich
's
return
to
the
throne
in
seven
years
'
time
,
when
everything
would
be
made
free
and
so
"
simple
"
that
there
would
be
no
restrictions
.
Rumors
of
the
war
with
Bonaparte
and
his
invasion
were
connected
in
their
minds
with
the
same
sort
of
vague
notions
of
Antichrist
,
the
end
of
the
world
,
and
"
pure
freedom
.
"
In
the
vicinity
of
Boguchárovo
were
large
villages
belonging
to
the
crown
or
to
owners
whose
serfs
paid
quitrent
and
could
work
where
they
pleased
.
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There
were
very
few
resident
landlords
in
the
neighborhood
and
also
very
few
domestic
or
literate
serfs
,
and
in
the
lives
of
the
peasantry
of
those
parts
the
mysterious
undercurrents
in
the
life
of
the
Russian
people
,
the
causes
and
meaning
of
which
are
so
baffling
to
contemporaries
,
were
more
clearly
and
strongly
noticeable
than
among
others
.
One
instance
,
which
had
occurred
some
twenty
years
before
,
was
a
movement
among
the
peasants
to
emigrate
to
some
unknown
"
warm
rivers
.
"
Hundreds
of
peasants
,
among
them
the
Boguchárovo
folk
,
suddenly
began
selling
their
cattle
and
moving
in
whole
families
toward
the
southeast
.
As
birds
migrate
to
somewhere
beyond
the
sea
,
so
these
men
with
their
wives
and
children
streamed
to
the
southeast
,
to
parts
where
none
of
them
had
ever
been
.
They
set
off
in
caravans
,
bought
their
freedom
one
by
one
or
ran
away
,
and
drove
or
walked
toward
the
"
warm
rivers
.
"
Many
of
them
were
punished
,
some
sent
to
Siberia
,
many
died
of
cold
and
hunger
on
the
road
,
many
returned
of
their
own
accord
,
and
the
movement
died
down
of
itself
just
as
it
had
sprung
up
,
without
apparent
reason
.
But
such
undercurrents
still
existed
among
the
people
and
gathered
new
forces
ready
to
manifest
themselves
just
as
strangely
,
unexpectedly
,
and
at
the
same
time
simply
,
naturally
,
and
forcibly
.
Now
in
1812
,
to
anyone
living
in
close
touch
with
these
people
it
was
apparent
that
these
undercurrents
were
acting
strongly
and
nearing
an
eruption
.
Alpátych
,
who
had
reached
Boguchárovo
shortly
before
the
old
prince
's
death
,
noticed
an
agitation
among
the
peasants
,
and
that
contrary
to
what
was
happening
in
the
Bald
Hills
district
,
where
over
a
radius
of
forty
miles
all
the
peasants
were
moving
away
and
leaving
their
villages
to
be
devastated
by
the
Cossacks
,
the
peasants
in
the
steppe
region
round
Boguchárovo
were
,
it
was
rumored
,
in
touch
with
the
French
,
received
leaflets
from
them
that
passed
from
hand
to
hand
,
and
did
not
migrate
.
He
learned
from
domestic
serfs
loyal
to
him
that
the
peasant
Karp
,
who
possessed
great
influence
in
the
village
commune
and
had
recently
been
away
driving
a
government
transport
,
had
returned
with
news
that
the
Cossacks
were
destroying
deserted
villages
,
but
that
the
French
did
not
harm
them
.
Alpátych
also
knew
that
on
the
previous
day
another
peasant
had
even
brought
from
the
village
of
Visloúkhovo
,
which
was
occupied
by
the
French
,
a
proclamation
by
a
French
general
that
no
harm
would
be
done
to
the
inhabitants
,
and
if
they
remained
they
would
be
paid
for
anything
taken
from
them
.
As
proof
of
this
the
peasant
had
brought
from
Visloúkhovo
a
hundred
rubles
in
notes
(
he
did
not
know
that
they
were
false
)
paid
to
him
in
advance
for
hay
.
More
important
still
,
Alpátych
learned
that
on
the
morning
of
the
very
day
he
gave
the
village
Elder
orders
to
collect
carts
to
move
the
princess
'
luggage
from
Boguchárovo
,
there
had
been
a
village
meeting
at
which
it
had
been
decided
not
to
move
but
to
wait
.
Yet
there
was
no
time
to
waste
.