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Updated: May 8, 2025
Mahin told her what he knew from the police official about Stepan's last murder, and also what he had heard from Pelageushkine himself how he had been conquered by the humility, mildness, and fearlessness of a kind woman, who had been his last victim, and how his eyes had been opened, while the reading of the Gospels had completed the change in him. Lisa Eropkin was not able to sleep that night.
He got interested in Stepan Pelageushkine, and, although he did not thoroughly understand him, yet asked himself involuntarily what was the matter with the man?
She asked Mahin to tell her more about the man Pelageushkine, and to explain to her how such a great change had come over him.
Mitia Smokovnikov had finished his studies in the Technical College; he was now an engineer in the gold mines in Siberia, and was very highly paid. One day he was about to make a round in the district. The governor offered him a convict, Stepan Pelageushkine, to accompany him on his journey. "A convict, you say? But is not that dangerous?" "Not if it is this one. He is a holy man.
He fell without a word to the ground, and then shouted, "Devils, wild beasts, kill me if that's what you want! I am not afraid of you!" Stepan seized a stone out of those that had been collected for the purpose, and with a heavy blow smashed Ivan Mironov's head. IVAN MIRONOV'S murderers were brought to trial, Stepan Pelageushkine among them.
He had the advantage of being liked by women, and as he had won favour with a vice-minister's former mistress, he was appointed when still young as examining magistrate. He was dishonest, had debts, had gambled, and had seduced many women; but he was clever, sagacious, and a good magistrate. He was appointed to the court of the district where Stepan Pelageushkine had been tried.
Stepan Pelageushkine, a tall, stooping man with long arms, an aquiline nose, and a gloomy face was the first to put questions to him. Stepan had terminated his military service, and was of a solitary turn of mind. When he had separated from his father, and started his own home, he had his first experience of losing a horse.
But now, to the greatest astonishment of the prison authorities, he said he did not intend to go, and added that he would not be a hangman any more. "And what about being flogged?" cried the governor of the prison. "I will have to bear it, as the law commands us not to kill." "Did you get that from Pelageushkine? A nice sort of a prison prophet! You just wait and see what this will cost you!"
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