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Updated: June 23, 2025
VASILÍSA PEREGRÍNOVNA. It's impossible for you to know everything, dear benefactress. And it's not worth while for you, in your gentility, to trouble yourself about every low-lived person. And though they do complain, what's the use of paying attention; are they worth your notice? Since you do so many good deeds for others, God will forgive you, our benefactress.
LEONÍD and NÁDYA reach the shore and disembark from the boat. LÍZA, NÁDYA, and LEONÍD LÍZA. What have you done, what have you done!... LEONÍD. I will. LÍZA. What's the matter, don't you hear? NÁDYA. If I can't come, I'll send a note somehow or other. LEONÍD. Good! LÍZA. Vasilísa Peregrínovna saw you rowing on the pond. NÁDYA. Well, deuce take her!
Vasilisa, a woman of experience, who had been in service with the gentry, first as a wet-nurse, afterwards as a children's nurse, expressed herself with refinement, and a soft, sedate smile never left her face; her daughter Lukerya, a village peasant woman, who had been beaten by her husband, simply screwed up her eyes at the student and said nothing, and she had a strange expression like that of a deaf mute.
I slave, and slave, and can't ever go anywhere! VASILÍSA PEREGRÍNOVNA. Oh me, oh my! Oh me, oh my! How spoiled you are! How spoiled you are! MADAM ULANBÉKOV. What are you cackling about? Keep still! VASILÍSA PEREGRÍNOVNA. But how can I keep still, benefactress? Such lack of feeling! Such ingratitude! It pierces the heart. MADAM ULANBÉKOV. I command you to keep still, and you must keep still!
We work all day and wait on the gentry, and we go walking at night. But I am surprised at you! Don't you walk enough daytimes that you still want to wander around at night and scare people, just like.... VASILÍSA PEREGRÍNOVNA. Just like what?... Well, say it, say it! LÍZA. What? Oh, nothing. VASILÍSA PEREGRÍNOVNA. No, you said, "Just like" ... well, say it now; just like who?
Tsarevich Ivan, why didst thou burn that frog-skin? Thou didst not make, nor shouldst thou therefore have done away with it. Vasilisa, thy wife, was born wiser and more cunning than her father; he was therefore angry with her, and bade her be a frog for three years. Here is a little ball for thee, follow it whithersoever it rolls." Ivan thanked the old man, and followed after the ball.
Wears summer dress. Is studying in Petersburg. VASILÍSA PEREGRÍNOVNA, a toady of MADAM ULANBÉKOV'S, an old maid of forty. Scanty hair, parted slantingly, combed high, and held by a large comb. She is continually smiling with a wily expression, and she suffers from toothache; about her throat is a yellow shawl fastened by a brooch. POTÁPYCH, the old steward. Tie and vest, white; coat black.
Now, if only those girls.... MADAM ULANBÉKOV. Oh, here's another affliction! Now I certainly can't collect my thoughts; I'm completely distracted, and now she begins on the girls! I shall take to my bed at any moment. VASILÍSA PEREGRÍNOVNA. Lust, benefactress, is beyond all endurance. MADAM ULANBÉKOV. No, they needn't expect any mercy from me. If I were a man, would they dare be so willful?
"'And we wish them a happy Christmas; we are alive and well, and I wish you the same, please the Lord... the Heavenly King." Vasilisa pondered and exchanged glances with the old man. "'And I wish you the same, please the Lord the Heavenly King," she repeated, beginning to cry. She could say nothing more.
They agreed upon fifteen kopecks. And now it happened on the second day of the holidays, in the tavern kitchen Yegor was sitting at the table, holding the pen in his hand. Vasilisa was standing before him, pondering with an expression of anxiety and woe on her face.
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