The Princess Tarakanova a Dark Chapter of Russian History
The Princess Tarakanova a Dark Chapter of Russian History
G P Grigorii Petrovich Danilevskii
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172 PRINCESS TARAKANOVA. " What ? " asked the bewildered Chesmenski. "Nothing ! " answered Yolkonski, turning* round, and looking aimlessly out of the window. " I was just recollecting a little Petersburg in- cident, that happened last year at Court. " What incident ? Honour me, Batiushka Prince ! " said the count, with a smile and a bow. " You see, here I hear nothing and see nothing of the new, curious, and to us very often incom- prehensible occurrences in the court regions ? " " Well ! as y...ou please, " said Yolkonski, clear- ing his throat, and continuing to gaze out of the window. " The incident, if you like, is not very important, rather comical than otherwise. You know the wife of the General Major Kojin ? Marie Dimitrievna, who is so lively, so beautiful and such a chatterbox ? " " Oh, of course, who does not know her ? I often used to meet her, before my departure for foreign parts. " " Well ! you know, she babbled out, it is said, somewhere . . . That some one well ! we'll call them the Abaloshoffs, it's all the same, I've forgotten who — had decided on patron- ising the new lucky man, Peter Modrvinoff.
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