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Updated: May 26, 2025
A kunak would come to visit me and I'd make him drunk with vodka and make him happy and put him to sleep with me, and when I went to see him I'd take him a present a dagger!
'Do you know Girey Khan in Suuk-su? asked Lukashka, evidently proud of the acquaintance. 'He is my kunak. 'He is my neighbour, answered the scout. 'He's a trump! and Lukashka, evidently much interested, began talking to the scout in Tartar. Presently a Cossack captain, with the head of the village, arrived on horseback with a suite of two Cossacks.
Eroshka winked at Olenin, pointing to Beletski. 'Eh, he's a proud one that kunak of yours, he said. Beletski raised his glass. ALLAH BIRDY' he said, emptying it. 'Speaking of holidays! he said, turning to Olenin as he rose and looked out of the window, 'What sort of holiday is that! You should have seen them make merry in the old days! The women used to come out in their gold trimmed sarafans.
And who was I? I was Eroshka, the thief; they knew me not only in this village but up in the mountains. Tartar princes, my kunaks, used to come to see me! I used to be everybody's kunak. If he was a Tartar with a Tartar; an Armenian with an Armenian; a soldier with a soldier; an officer with an officer! I didn't care as long as he was a drinker.
There now, only the other day, what a boar I killed, and I divided it among the Cossacks, but if I had only known, I'd have given it to you. 'That's all right, thank you! But don't harness the horse, it has never been in harness. 'Why harness the horse? And there is something else I'll tell you if you like, said Lukashka, bending his head. 'I have a kunak, Girey Khan.
We had an army captain in Chervlena who was my kunak: a fine fellow just like me. He was killed in Chechnya. Well, he used to say that the preachers invent all that out of their own heads. "When you die the grass will grow on your grave and that's all!" The old man laughed. 'He was a desperate fellow. 'And how old are you? asked Olenin. 'The Lord only knows! I must be about seventy.
'Well, 'Mitry Andreich, God bless you. We will be kunaks. Now you must come to see us. Though we are not rich people still we can treat a kunak, and I will tell mother in case you need anything clotted cream or grapes and if you come to the cordon I'm your servant to go hunting or to go across the river, anywhere you like!
He says, "Only bring horses to the Terek, and then even if you bring a whole stud I'll find a place for them." You see he's also a shaven-headed Tartar how's one to believe him? 'You may trust Girey Khan, all his kin were good people. His father too was a faithful kunak. But listen to Daddy and I won't teach you wrong: make him take an oath, then it will be all right.
"Not the same sort of men!" retorted the old man, mimicking the Cossack lad. 'I was not that sort of Cossack at your age. 'How's that? asked Lukashka. The old man shook his head contemptuously. 'Daddy Eroshka was simple; he did not grudge anything! That's why I was kunak with all Chechnya.
Olenin could not help admiring the horse, he had not yet met with such a beauty in the Caucasus. 'And how it goes! said Lukashka, patting its neck. 'What a step! And so clever he simply runs after his master. 'Did you have to add much to make the exchange? asked Olenin. 'I did not count it, answered Lukashka with a smile. 'I got him from a kunak. 'A wonderfully beautiful horse!
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