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Updated: June 4, 2025
'Yes. 'Kasatsky, the handsome hermit? 'Yes. 'Mesdames et messieurs, let us drive on and see Kasatsky! We can stop at Tambov and have something to eat. 'But we shouldn't get home to-night! 'Never mind, we will stay at Kasatsky's. 'Well, there is a very good hostelry at the Monastery. I stayed there when I was defending Makhin. 'No, I shall spend the night at Kasatsky's! 'Impossible!
All the cadets were as usual greatly moved, and Kasatsky even shed tears, remembering the past, and vowed that he would serve his beloved Tsar with all his soul. When Kasatsky took up his commission his mother moved with her daughter first to Moscow and then to their country estate.
She was extremely attractive and he soon fell in love with her. At first she was noticeably cool towards him, but then suddenly changed and became gracious, and her mother gave him pressing invitations to visit them. Kasatsky proposed and was accepted. He was surprised at the facility with which he attained such happiness.
The question was asked, and one old woman replied: 'As God takes it. Our feet have reached the holy places, but our hearts may not have done so. They asked the soldier. He said that he was alone in the world and had nowhere else to go. They asked Kasatsky who he was. 'A servant of God. 'Qu'est-ce qu'il dit? Il ne repond pas. 'Il dit qu'il est un serviteur de Dieu.
I'm coming! she replied to a call from her son-in-law, and tidying her scanty plait she left the room. But this time it was long before she returned. When she came back, Kasatsky was sitting in the same position, his elbows resting on his knees and his head bowed. But his wallet was strapped on his back.
The less importance he attached to the opinion of men the more did he feel the presence of God within him. For eight months Kasatsky tramped on in this manner, and in the ninth month he was arrested for not having a passport. This happened at a night-refuge in a provincial town where he had passed the night with some pilgrims.
This event appeared extraordinary and inexplicable to those who did not know his inner motives, but for Prince Stepan Kasatsky himself it all occurred so naturally that he could not imagine how he could have acted otherwise.
But as it is I have not been able to do anything, and have brought them all to this as you see. 'Yes, yes, said Kasatsky, lowering his head. 'And how is it, Pashenka do you take part in Church life? 'Oh, don't speak of it. I am so bad that way, and have neglected it so! I keep the fasts with the children and sometimes go to church, and then again sometimes I don't go for months.
But those days were dreadful. Kasatsky felt that he was neither in his own hands nor in God's, but was subject to something else. All he could do then was to obey the starets, to restrain himself, to undertake nothing, and simply to wait. In general all this time he lived not by his own will but by that of the starets, and in this obedience he found a special tranquillity.
Two weeks before the day arranged for the wedding, Kasatsky was at Tsarskoe Selo at his fiancee's country place. It was a hot day in May. He and his betrothed had walked about the garden and were sitting on a bench in a shady linden alley.
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