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Rostopchín
,
though
he
had
patriotic
sentiments
,
was
a
sanguine
and
impulsive
man
who
had
always
moved
in
the
highest
administrative
circles
and
had
no
understanding
at
all
of
the
people
he
supposed
himself
to
be
guiding
.
Ever
since
the
enemy
's
entry
into
Smolénsk
he
had
in
imagination
been
playing
the
role
of
director
of
the
popular
feeling
of
"
the
heart
of
Russia
.
"
Not
only
did
it
seem
to
him
(
as
to
all
administrators
)
that
he
controlled
the
external
actions
of
Moscow
's
inhabitants
,
but
he
also
thought
he
controlled
their
mental
attitude
by
means
of
his
broadsheets
and
posters
,
written
in
a
coarse
tone
which
the
people
despise
in
their
own
class
and
do
not
understand
from
those
in
authority
.
Rostopchín
was
so
pleased
with
the
fine
role
of
leader
of
popular
feeling
,
and
had
grown
so
used
to
it
,
that
the
necessity
of
relinquishing
that
role
and
abandoning
Moscow
without
any
heroic
display
took
him
unawares
and
he
suddenly
felt
the
ground
slip
away
from
under
his
feet
,
so
that
he
positively
did
not
know
what
to
do
.
Though
he
knew
it
was
coming
,
he
did
not
till
the
last
moment
wholeheartedly
believe
that
Moscow
would
be
abandoned
,
and
did
not
prepare
for
it
.
The
inhabitants
left
against
his
wishes
.
If
the
government
offices
were
removed
,
this
was
only
done
on
the
demand
of
officials
to
whom
the
count
yielded
reluctantly
.
He
was
absorbed
in
the
role
he
had
created
for
himself
.
As
is
often
the
case
with
those
gifted
with
an
ardent
imagination
,
though
he
had
long
known
that
Moscow
would
be
abandoned
he
knew
it
only
with
his
intellect
,
he
did
not
believe
it
in
his
heart
and
did
not
adapt
himself
mentally
to
this
new
position
of
affairs
.
All
his
painstaking
and
energetic
activity
(
in
how
far
it
was
useful
and
had
any
effect
on
the
people
is
another
question
)
had
been
simply
directed
toward
arousing
in
the
masses
his
own
feeling
of
patriotic
hatred
of
the
French
.
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But
when
events
assumed
their
true
historical
character
,
when
expressing
hatred
for
the
French
in
words
proved
insufficient
,
when
it
was
not
even
possible
to
express
that
hatred
by
fighting
a
battle
,
when
self-confidence
was
of
no
avail
in
relation
to
the
one
question
before
Moscow
,
when
the
whole
population
streamed
out
of
Moscow
as
one
man
,
abandoning
their
belongings
and
proving
by
that
negative
action
all
the
depth
of
their
national
feeling
,
then
the
role
chosen
by
Rostopchín
suddenly
appeared
senseless
.
He
unexpectedly
felt
himself
ridiculous
,
weak
,
and
alone
,
with
no
ground
to
stand
on
.
When
,
awakened
from
his
sleep
,
he
received
that
cold
,
peremptory
note
from
Kutúzov
,
he
felt
the
more
irritated
the
more
he
felt
himself
to
blame
.
All
that
he
had
been
specially
put
in
charge
of
,
the
state
property
which
he
should
have
removed
,
was
still
in
Moscow
and
it
was
no
longer
possible
to
take
the
whole
of
it
away
.
"
Who
is
to
blame
for
it
?
Who
has
let
things
come
to
such
a
pass
?
"
he
ruminated
.
"
Not
I
,
of
course
.
I
had
everything
ready
.
I
had
Moscow
firmly
in
hand
.
And
this
is
what
they
have
let
it
come
to
!
Villains
!
Traitors
!
"
he
thought
,
without
clearly
defining
who
the
villains
and
traitors
were
,
but
feeling
it
necessary
to
hate
those
traitors
whoever
they
might
be
who
were
to
blame
for
the
false
and
ridiculous
position
in
which
he
found
himself
.
All
that
night
Count
Rostopchín
issued
orders
,
for
which
people
came
to
him
from
all
parts
of
Moscow
.
Those
about
him
had
never
seen
the
count
so
morose
and
irritable
.
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"
Your
excellency
,
the
Director
of
the
Registrar
's
Department
has
sent
for
instructions
...
From
the
Consistory
,
from
the
Senate
,
from
the
University
,
from
the
Foundling
Hospital
,
the
Suffragan
has
sent
...
asking
for
information
...
What
are
your
orders
about
the
Fire
Brigade
?
From
the
governor
of
the
prison
...
from
the
superintendent
of
the
lunatic
asylum
...
"
All
night
long
such
announcements
were
continually
being
received
by
the
count
.
To
all
these
inquiries
he
gave
brief
and
angry
replies
indicating
that
orders
from
him
were
not
now
needed
,
that
the
whole
affair
,
carefully
prepared
by
him
,
had
now
been
ruined
by
somebody
,
and
that
that
somebody
would
have
to
bear
the
whole
responsibility
for
all
that
might
happen
.
"
Oh
,
tell
that
blockhead
,
"
he
said
in
reply
to
the
question
from
the
Registrar
's
Department
,
"
that
he
should
remain
to
guard
his
documents
.
Now
why
are
you
asking
silly
questions
about
the
Fire
Brigade
?
They
have
horses
,
let
them
be
off
to
Vladímir
,
and
not
leave
them
to
the
French