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Updated: June 8, 2025
"I know, I know, what you want to ask," said Piotr Andreitch; "don't fret yourself, she shall stay with us, and I will forgive Vanka for her sake." With an effort Anna Pavlovna took her husband's hand and pressed it to her lips. The same evening she breathed her last. Piotr Andreitch kept his word.
The shopman at the poulterer's, from whom he had inquired the night before, had told him that letters were to be put into post-boxes, and from there they were conveyed over the whole earth in mail troikas by drunken post-boys and to the sound of bells. Vanka ran to the first post-box and slipped his precious letter into the slit. An hour afterwards, lulled by hope, he was sleeping soundly.
Vanka folded his sheet of paper in four, and put it into an envelope purchased the night before for a kopek. He thought a little, dipped the pen into the ink, and wrote the address: "The village, to my grandfather." He then scratched his head, thought again, and added: "Konstantin Makarych."
At the family council in the evening, it was decided to send him into business. VANKA ZHUKOV, a boy of nine, who had been for three months apprenticed to Alyahin the shoemaker, was sitting up on Christmas Eve.
As soon as the least thing happens, the wife says: 'I release you. I am going to leave your house. Even among the moujiks this fashion has become acclimated. 'There, she says, 'here are your shirts and drawers. I am going off with Vanka. His hair is curlier than yours. Just go talk with them. And yet the first rule for the wife should be fear."
Vanka sighed, dipped his pen, and went on writing: "And yesterday I had a wigging. The master pulled me out into the yard by my hair, and whacked me with a boot-stretcher because I accidentally fell asleep while I was rocking their brat in the cradle. And a week ago the mistress told me to clean a herring, and I began from the tail end, and she took the herring and thrust its head in my face.
But we had a touch of our usual luck in an eccentric cabman. Vanka that is, Johnny set out almost before we had taken our seats; we clutched his belt for support, and away we flew through the inky darkness and fathomless dust, outstripping everything on the road. We came to a bridge; one wheel skimmed along high on the side rail, the loose boards rattled ominously beneath the other.
He saw with his mind's eye the great pond covered with snow.... On one side of the pond was a brick-built pottery, with a tall chimney belching clouds of black smoke, and on the other side was the village.... From the yard of the fifth house from the corner came his brother Alency in a sledge; behind him sat his little son Vanka in large felt boots, and his daughter Akulka, also in felt boots.
Vanka Sitkin, one of the Cossacks, got merry, and puff! he gave me one from his pistol just here. 'Yes, and did it hurt? asked Olenin. 'Vanyusha, will you soon be ready? he added. 'Ah, where's the hurry! Let me tell you. When he banged into me, the bullet did not break the bone but remained here. And I say: "You've killed me, brother. Eh! What have you done to me? I won't let you off!
The Orthodox live at peace with the Tatars. We found that we had underrated the power of our man's little horse, and had arrived at the river an hour and a half before the steamer was appointed to sail. It should be there lading, however, and we decided to go directly on board and wait in comfort. We gave patient Vanka liberal "tea-money."
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