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Updated: May 8, 2025
At last he finished his letter, put it with my commission into the same cover, took off his spectacles, called me, and said "This letter is addressed to Andréj Karlovitch R., my old friend and comrade. You are to go to Orenburg to serve under him." All my brilliant expectations and high hopes vanished.
I shall write immediately to Andréj Karlovitch to beg him to send you away from Fort Bélogorsk to some place still further removed, so that you may get over this folly. "Upon hearing of your duel and wound your mother fell ill with sorrow, and she is still confined to her bed. "What will become of you? I pray God may correct you, though I scarcely dare trust in His goodness. "Your father,
However, master and servant safely arrived at Wolmar in Livonia, and there Andrej came to the determination of renouncing the service of the ungrateful Ivan, and entering that of the King of Poland. For this last step there was no excuse.
Struck with horror, I followed her into the bedroom. I look round; the room is nearly dark. Near the bed some people were standing, looking sad and cast down. I approached on tiptoe. My mother raised the curtain, and said "Andréj Petróvitch, Petróusha has come back; he came back having heard of your illness. Give him your blessing." I knelt down.
Yediguer and one old councillor were accordingly placed in the hands of an officer, and then the desperate Tatars, climbing down the outside of the walls, made for the Kazanka, where no troops, except the small body under Andrej Kourbsky and his brother Romanus, were at leisure to pursue them.
I dined at Andréj Karlovitch's, in the company of his old aide de camp. Strict German economy was the rule at his table, and I think that the dread of a frequent guest at his bachelor's table contributed not a little to my being so promptly sent away to a distant garrison. The next day I took leave of the General, and started for my destination.
This reinforcement recalled the plunderers to their duty, and the Tatars were driven back to the Khan's palace, whence, after an hour's defense, they were forced to retreat. At a postern gate, Andrej Kourbsky and two hundred men met Yediguer and 10,000 Tatars, and cut off their retreat, enclosing them in the narrow streets.
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