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Updated: May 28, 2025
But the terem, with "its twenty-seven locks," was not going to confine the sister of Peter. She met the eyes of men in public; studied them well, too; and then selected the instruments for her designs of effacing Peter and his mother, and herself becoming sovereign indeed. In the tumult which followed one of her brothers, Peter's uncle, was torn from Natalia's arms and cut to pieces.
Finally I caught hold of her, and, clinging to her, wept wept, thinking of nothing in the world but my grief. As we passed out to take our seats, other servants pressed round us in the hall to say good-bye. The same feeling made me bestow nothing more than a very cross kiss upon Natalia's cap when she approached to take leave of me.
Though Natalia's last illness lasted for two months, she bore her sufferings with truly Christian fortitude. Never did she fret or complain, but, as usual, appealed continually to God. An hour before the end came she made her final confession, received the Sacrament with quiet joy, and was accorded extreme unction.
The Guards had already left Petersburg on the tenth of August, and her son, who had remained in Moscow for his equipment, was to join them on the march to Radzivilov. It was St. Natalia's day and the name day of two of the Rostovs the mother and the youngest daughter both named Nataly.
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