davydovna

Updated: June 5, 2025

In olden days, when it was the residence of the princely Rastorovs' balls were held there, but decay had set in during the last twenty years, and Kseniya Davydovna the mistress old, ill, a spinster, was drawing to the end of her days. She died in October, 1917, and now the tumbling, plundered house was occupied by the heirs.

Boris Pilniak - Tales of the Wilderness