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Updated: May 19, 2025
"'How now, my love? said he. What think you of THAT, Barbara? True, it is a little too outspoken there can be no doubt of that; yet how grand it is, how splendid! With your permission I will also quote you an extract from Rataziaev's story, Ermak and Zuleika: "'You love me, Zuleika? Say again that you love me, you love me! "'I DO love you, Ermak, whispered Zuleika.
Oh, if men would but understand the mysterious passions of her tender heart, and see the poem which lurks in each of her little tears! Suffer me to dry those tears with my kisses! Suffer me to drink of those heavenly drops, 0h being who art not of this earth! "'Ermak, said Zuleika, 'the world is cruel, and men are unjust.
What must Ermak have felt when he learnt that his Zuleika had been murdered, Barbara? that, taking advantages of the cover of night, the blind old Kouchoum had, in Ermak's absence, broken into the latter's tent, and stabbed his own daughter in mistake for the man who had robbed him of sceptre and crown?
But LET them drive us from their midst let them judge us, my beloved Ermak! What has a poor maiden who was reared amid the snows of Siberia to do with their cold, icy, self-sufficient world? Men cannot understand me, my darling, my sweetheart. "'Is that so? Then shall the sword of the Cossacks sing and whistle over their heads! cried Ermak with a furious look in his eyes."
Ours were lively, happy, and full of frolic and fun; theirs were slow, sad wails, which can only come from the heart of a long troubled people. The songs of Ermak Tinothavitch, the conqueror of Siberia, were fierce and martial, but the strain of tragedy ran through them all.
"'Oh that I had a stone whereon to whet my sword! cried Ermak in the madness of his wrath as he strove to sharpen his steel blade upon the enchanted rock. 'I would have his blood, his blood! I would tear him limb from limb, the villain!" Then Ermak, unable to survive the loss of his Zuleika, throws himself into the Irtisch, and the tale comes to an end.
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