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"Now this has been foreseen, as everything is with the Master; and his orders are that you shall take this passport which you will find in perfect order, save for the fact that the date has been slightly altered from me as soon as I have got the ladies safely in the troika out on the Tobolsk road, put off the livery of the Tsar, disguise yourself as effectually as may be, and take the first train back to Perm and Nizhni Novgorod as Stepan Bakuinin, fur merchant.
"You're not telling me the right thing!" said he, softly. "Well, I don't know what you want. But see here, what are we going to do after they have raised the barge?" "What can we do?" asked Foma. "Shall we go to Nizhni or to Kazan?" "What for?" "To carouse." "I don't want to carouse any more." "What else are you going to do?" "What? Nothing."
The engineers quickly joined the party and from then on until the following morning they continued in a forced march back to prepared positions at Mala-Beresnik and Nizhni Kitsa on opposite sides of the river about eight versts in rear of Kitsa. The positions here were a godsend after our experience of the past two months in the open and exposed positions further up the river.
We succeeded in getting across the Urals before the end of the year, and on the 7th of January, after twenty-five days of almost incessant night-and-day travel, we drew up before a hotel in the city of Nizhni Novgorod, which, at that time, was the eastern terminus of the Russian railway system.
They described him as "Stepan Bakuinin, fur merchant of Nizhni Novgorod, travelling in pursuit of his business, with his servant, Peter Petrovitch, also of Nizhni Novgorod."
Panteley told them that in the past, before there were railways, he used to go with trains of waggons to Moscow and to Nizhni, and used to earn so much that he did not know what to do with his money; and what merchants there used to be in those days! what fish! how cheap everything was!
"Should you remain much longer in that position," I remark, "you will have a headache." There follows no reply. "Am I disturbing you?" I continue. "Oh no; not at all." And, lowering her hands, she looks at me. "Whence do you come?" "From Nizhni Novgorod." "Oh, from a long way off!" "Do you care for that young fellow?"
"Oh, it is the young fellow from Nizhni Novgorod! You are wasting your time, my good sir, for the women have all gone to bed." With which he laughed and chuckled like a bear.
Petersburg and Moscow, with their mongrel German-French-Russian cookery. The dishes are very Russian, but they are very good. I remember one particularly delicious concoction was composed of fresh sterlet and sour cabbage, with white grapes on top, baked to a brown crispness. We arrived at our wharf on the Volga front of the old town of Nizhni Novgorod about five o'clock in the afternoon.
Halfway to Tula the train crosses the river Oka, which makes so fine a show when it enters the Volga at Nizhni Novgorod, and which even here is imposing in breadth and busy with steamers. It was not far from here that an acquaintance of mine one day overtook a wayfarer. He was weather-beaten and travel-stained, dressed like a peasant, and carried his boots slung over his shoulder.
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