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Updated: October 9, 2025
The Tartars next plunged into the deep forests of the Volga, and sent a sorcerer and two officers as envoys to the princes of Riazan. The three princes of Riazan, those of Pronsk, Kolomna, Moscow, and Murom, advanced to meet them. "If you want peace," said the Tartars, "give us the tenth of your goods." "When we are dead," replied the Russian princes, "you can have the whole."
His mien is dejected, and his body perspiring, while his eyes keep blinking rapidly. "Has any one seen Tanka that woman from Riazan?" he inquires. "No? Then the bitch must have bolted during the night. The fact is that, overnight, someone gave me a drop or two to drink, a mere dram, but enough to lay me as fast asleep as a bear in winter-time.
Yet, oh how that steppe, bathed in golden sunshine, draws one to itself and its smooth desolation of sweet, dry grasses as the parched, fragrant expanse rustles under the soughing wind! "You ask about that woman, eh?" queries Konev, whom I find leaning against one of the poplar trunks, and embracing it with an arm. "Yes. From where does she hail?" "From Riazan, she says.
"It is a matter of no consequence," Konev remarks as he paces beside me. "Yet " "They seem to be taking us for robbers," is my interruption. "As is everywhere the way," he comments. "It is but one thing more laid to our charge. Caution decides always that a stranger is a thief." In front of us walks the woman from Riazan, in company with the young fellow of the bloated features.
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