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Thanks very much for your letter, for remembering me. I am dull here, I am sick of it, and I have a feeling as though I have been thrown overboard. And the weather's bad too, and I am not well. I still go on coughing. All good wishes. YALTA, January 28, 1900. ... I can't make out what Tolstoy's illness is.
Masha will tell you when she goes back to Moscow how we spent Christmas. I have not congratulated you on the success of "Lonely Lives." I still dream that you will all come to Yalta, that I shall see "Lonely Lives" on the stage, and congratulate you really from my heart.
How are you feeling? When are you coming to Yalta? Write fully. I have received the photograph, it is very good; many thanks for it. Thank you, too, for the trouble you have taken in regard to our committee for assisting invalids coming here. Send any money there is or will be to me, or to the executive of the Benevolent Society, no matter which.
It is entertaining to get on board and set off, but it is rather a bore to sail and talk to a crowd of passengers consisting of elements all of which one knows by heart and is weary of already.... Yalta is a mixture of something European that reminds one of the views of Nice, with something cheap and shoddy.
Anyway, be a good fellow and a good comrade, and don't be angry with me for preaching at you like a head priest. Write to me. I look forward to "Foma Gordeyev," which I haven't yet read properly. There is no news. Keep well, I press your hand warmly. YALTA, February 10, 1900.
Gorky will make a very great writer if only he does not weary, does not grow cold and lazy. YALTA, March 10, 1900. No winter has ever dragged on so long for me as this one, and time merely drags and does not move, and now I realize how stupid it was of me to leave Moscow.
He did not want to go abroad, and preferred the Crimea, reckoning that he might possibly seize an opportunity to pay a brief visit to Moscow, where his plays were to appear at the Art Theatre. His choice did not disappoint him. That autumn in Yalta was splendid; he felt well there, and the progress of his disease led him to settle in Yalta permanently.
Griswold's story of the visit as given in the "Pilgrimage" is as follows: "On the way from Odessa to Yalta, several meetings were held by the gentlemen in the saloon for the purpose of preparing an address to be presented to the Czar; at the same time the ladies were gathered in groups conversing about the coming event. "This morning we dropped anchor at Yalta.
Afterwards when I was at Yalta I saw the same beautiful lady dashing about on horseback with a couple of officers hardly able to keep up with her. And one morning I saw her in an overall and a Phrygian cap, sketching on the sea-front with a great crowd admiring her a little way off. I too was introduced to her.
YALTA, October 26, 1898. ... I am buying a piece of land in Yalta and am going to build so as to have a place in which to spend the winters. The prospect of continual wandering with hotel rooms, hotel porters, chance cooking, and so on, and so on, alarms my imagination. Mother will spend the winter with me.
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