In this post there will be a lot of Lenin, a photo of a rural bullpen and a tavern, a story about a peasant deputy of the first Russian State Duma, but mostly huts, huts, huts ...
The word "Shush" is translated from the Turkic languages as "bone", respectively, and "Shushenskoye" can be appropriately translated as "Bone". Initially, the river was called Shushya, and the name of the village was taken from the name of the river. Who was destined to colossally become famous and become famous throughout the communist world.
1. Now the museum from a political institution has painlessly become a skansen.
The first mention of the village has been known since 1744, since 1822 - the volost center of the Minusinsk district (okrug) of the Yenisei province. For a long time, by the way, it was called not "Shushenskoye" but "Shushskoye", which is phonetically more correct. And the city website is still called Shushka.Ru :)
Shushinskoe village. in 55 versts from Minusinsk to Yu.-V .. on the right bank of the Yenisei; it has a stone Peter and Paul Church, up to 250 houses and up to 1900 inhabitants of both sexes, a parish school with 40 students, a small almshouse, the volost administration of the Shushenskaya volost, the apartment of the judge of the 3rd section, a pier and weekly bazaars, and in general this is a trading village and one of the most prosperous and wealthy in the district.
Latkin N. Yenisei Province. Past and Present 1892
There were traditionally many exiles (both the Decembrists and even Butashevich-Petrashevsky himself), although it still cannot be compared with Minusinsk. Actually, one of the exiles brought world fame to a really very distant village.
In the meantime, to the point and to the facts.
To leave for Shushenskoye from Abakan is elementary from the same bus station. Approximately every hour a bus leaves and after an hour and a half (bypassing the familiar Minusinsk, the very beautiful Tagar Lake and a serious mountain pass with a rise above the cloud level) you land at a bus station that is not at all rural, but rather very solid.
2. On this.
Despite the population of eighteen thousand, Shushenskoye is still a village. Since Soviet times, the authorities have been going to make it a city and constantly the inhabitants shied away from this honor. In the frenzy of democracy in the 90s, even a referendum was held, but they could not change the mood of the natives. Residents see some benefits in this status and do not want to be a city.
How to get to the museum?
You need to go to the square in front of the bus station and find the path that leads obliquely to the left. It will take you to the central square. In general, Shushenskoye is a very lively and cheerful village - movement, people, market, bustle - there is absolutely no sleepiness of old Minusinsk in it.
For some reason, I imagined this legendary place in a completely different way - a continuous private sector, part of which was fenced off for the museum, dirty unpaved streets and all that.
This is not at all the case, in the center there are fearless five-story buildings, then cottages, and only on the outskirts are strong Siberian huts. Judging by the museum, where houses of a hundred and twenty years ago are collected, everything has changed very, very much.
The central square is power, a club, a church, a museum.
4. And this is the Peter and Paul Church.
Of course, the church has been recently restored, since it was beyond the strength of the orthodox party members to imagine the place of Lenin's exile with the church. In Ulyanovsk, for example, they demolished everything, cleaned it up. The only rural Peter and Paul church was demolished here in 1938, although the adored one got married in it.
5. The museum office is surprisingly dull and gray in appearance. One by one they are not allowed into the territory, but people, despite weekdays, eat and don’t have to wait especially.
6. The place is fashionable, the guests were different.
7. And now - Huts!!!
Story:
After keeping Vladimir Ilyich in prison for 14 months after an attack of active Marxism, the authorities decided to send this insurgent to Krasnoyarsk (but not to a resort, but to exile :), writing in the accompanying papers to the local authorities - decide for yourself where to keep him in your vast Yenisei province, only so that he does not appear either in the European part of Russia or abroad.
Having made acquaintance with the doctors, Ilyich got a certificate of his frailty and sickness, and therefore, he did not go to the north of the province (like many others), but to the south, to the fertile Minusinsk district. It would seem that this is a harsh Siberia. But near Minusinsk, for example, beautiful watermelons ripen. Yes, and the local exiles compared nature no longer with an “icy hell” (like Turukhansk), but for some reason with Switzerland and Italy.
As a person in the care of the state, Lenin was paid monthly 8 state rubles. Is it a lot or a little? For the peasant, cash paper or copper money was generally a semi-fantastic matter. They appeared to him if he sold something (and did not naturally change, as was, in general, accepted). For exiles who did not have gardens and farms, these payments made it possible to lead a completely well-fed, but dull life. Therefore, the more obscene people tried to get some more work (although almost the entire civil service, education and health care were closed to the exiles).
Nadezhda Krupskaya tells us:
“The cheapness in this Shushenskoye was amazing. For example, Vladimir Ilyich for his "salary" - an eight-ruble allowance - had a clean room, feeding, washing and mending linen - and it was believed that he was paying dearly ... True, lunch and dinner were simple - for one week they killed a ram for Vladimir Ilyich, with which they fed him day after day until he had eaten everything; how to eat - they bought meat for a week, a worker in the yard - in a trough where they prepared feed for livestock, chopped the purchased meat into cutlets for Vladimir Ilyich - also for a whole week ... In general, the exile went well.
But money was still needed - mainly for books (books were very expensive then, especially those that Ilyich preferred to read). Where can a state criminal get funds?
At first, he asked (and received in abundance) funds from his mother, and then, during the exile, he himself began to receive good fees for his creations that were relevant and consonant with the times.
In general, despite the gigantic Leniniana, the figure of the mother, Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova (Blank), remained very, very mysterious. In the family, the eldest son turned out to be a regicide, the middle one had the grip of a bulldog and, with a tiny group of like-minded people, not only brought down the political system in the world's largest country, but also established himself as its political leader. Moreover, Maria Alexandrova never doubted the correctness of the actions of her sons and always supported them. Including financially.
The first impression of the “prisoner of tsarism” upon arrival was not joyful:
“The village is large, with several streets, rather dirty, dusty - everything is as it should be. It stands in the steppe - there are no gardens and no vegetation at all. The village is surrounded by ... manure, which is not taken out to the fields here, but thrown right behind the village, so that in order to leave the village, one must always almost go through a certain amount of manure.
8. First, Lenin settled in the house of the peasant Zyryanov (1840s) and lived there in 1897-1898).
But then the bride came to him (immediately with her mother, that is, a potential mother-in-law, moreover :)). The bride - Nadezhda Krupskaya - was the same exiled Marxist (only she was assigned to the settlement of Ufa), and she was familiar with the fiancé with a hat. And he was bored in exile, and she, in general, also had to improve her life, i.e. "two solitudes met." Well, the "cannibalistic" tsarist authorities allowed to change Ufa to Shushenskoye, in order to reunite with a potential spouse. Why not allow it, she is not asking for the Crimea and not for St. Petersburg.
9. The newlyweds looked like this. Average, I would say.
Volodya lost a lot of weight on state grubs and almost completely bald (by the age of 30), while Nadia was an ordinary girl from a good family "with ideals" and with a teacher's license.
For a long time, the authorities held back those who were getting married with a marriage license (what can be expected from these people?), but after inspired complaints from the authorities, everything was allowed. The mother of the bride insisted on the full wedding ceremony, but the story with copper wedding rings made of nickels is already known to everyone.
10. It was already crowded with the family in the old living space, and therefore the couple of exiles moved to Petrova's house (1898-1900). Sometimes they write - the house of the landowner Petrova - but where did the landowners come from in Siberia?
The hostess has her own separate entrance, in the photo on the right side.
In Soviet times, the guides said through their teeth very grittedly that the exiles and those offended by the tsarist government had personal servants. Now it is no secret that a 14 (15)-year-old girl, leading the main household, worked on the crooked "city" laborers. And she had her own room.
12. This one.
Poor, but even now many live worse.
13. And here is the main room of the exiles. I combined two photos to fit everything.
A table (for Nadezhda Konstantinovna, she performed the work of a secretary), a desk with a traditional green lamp (for Vladimir Ilyich), a wardrobe, a gun, beds, a door to the master's side, a stove.
The gun, as well as skates and many other things atypical for exile, were sent by Maria Alexandrovna. It was boring to sit back and write all sorts of dregs, so walking around the guests, trips to Minusinsk, hunting and skating on German (!) Skates on the ice of Shushi were practiced.
On February 11, 1900, a family of hardened political exiles left this hospitable village, and the museum was organized only on the eve of the centenary of his birth, in 1969.
And now about the usual architectural and historical incarnation.
14. House of the exiled settler Karevich (second half of the 19th century).
15. But peasant settlers lived in such houses (1860). Many people know about the Stolypin program for resettling farmers in Siberia and the Far East, but the peasants fled from landlessness to Siberia before. And at first they lived in modest houses.
It is indicated that the owner is a migrant from the South Russian province.
16. Those who lived for more than three years (and they were already considered old-timers) had better houses - for example, the house of Ermolaev (2nd half of the 19th century). We will talk about the peasant Simon Ermolaev further, this is not his only house here.
17. Zheltovsky's house (1880) There is a whole estate of a peasant-cooper.
18. This is a garage with all sorts of things.
19. In general, the percentage of safety of houses is very high, the figure is called 87%.
20. Metal for a peasant is expensive.
21. It was a discovery for me that wealthy peasants even tried not to enter the clean half of the house, so as not to soil their wealth. Therefore, they lived in the everyday half of the house, and came here only on holidays or with guests.
22. House of Cherkashin (1860) with luxurious shutters.
This is where the beekeeper lived.
23. And here is a fisherman. House of the middle peasant Potylitsyn (end of the 19th century).
In general, this seems to be a standard design of local houses, divided into two parts.
24. Backsides i.e. gardens. Even now, employees are seeding them, achieving authenticity).
25. Well with mechanization. An illiquid horse walked around in a circle (no one would put a good one on such a job).
26. River Shush in person. The beginning of June, and so cloudy!
27. This is how Shushensky Street looked like a hundred years ago. Only the road was dirtier.
In the foreground is Alikin's house (late 19th century).
28. I really like these gates. House of unknown owner 1870s
29. Here is this nondescript-looking house ...
30. ... has a gigantic yard and many associated rooms.
This is the house of Simon Ermolaev, a strong peasant who in 1906 became a member of not just anything, but the First State Duma. This story is ridiculous, like all Russian parliamentarism.
Having gone through many administrative slingshots (only two people were elected from the Yenisei province), he was convicted by the trust of the people, but did not have time to come to the opening of the work. But he managed to disperse and even signed the famous "Vyborg Appeal". It was a very powerful manifesto that led to the persecution and arrests of all its signatories.
The peasant Ermolaev was offered, for example, to serve three months in prison. And when it suits him. It was convenient for him in the winter - in the winter he served time. Here is a story about the people's choice.
31. Classic cellar.
In that Russia, where French rolls are frantically crunching to Schubert's waltzes, of course there was no crime, but in real life it was.
32. This is a rustic bullpen of the time. See the stakes? This is a volost government and a prison for three cells.
33. Everything was decided here, in the volost board. Simple offenses were dealt with on the spot and the outrageous punishment was also served on the spot. And the funny thing is that the clerk received money 10 times more than the volost foreman, chosen from the peasants.
34. Wooden dungeon of the regime.
35. Camera inside.
In total, there are two male and one female cells, where they were imprisoned for minor offenses. "Sutochnikov", as they would say now. The food for the prisoners was often brought by the wives/husbands/children who had them. At the state expense, they fed absolutely passportless vagrants.
36. In many houses there are various workshops. Here is a potter at work.
This is magic, of course, when a THING is obtained from filthy sticky clay.
37. Village store. Urban's house with shop (1880s)
38. An approximate assortment has been tested for decades. On the one hand metal...
39. ... and on the other - fabrics and shoes.
There was very little metal in the villages and it was highly valued. Cast iron, needles, samovars, agricultural implements - everything was expensive. There were no problems with fabrics in the village, only ordinary linen was very boring and therefore unfashionable. Therefore, the temple of consumerism offered beautiful printed chintz, silk, lace and other delights.
40. There are approximate prices, you can compare.
41. Tavern or, as indicated in the guidebooks, - "Drinking establishment."
42. Rack, tap, dishes. Only the environment has changed :)
In general, the peasants rarely came here and not at all because they did not like to drink. It’s just that there was no money for “state-owned bread wine”, so they tried to drive something alcoholic themselves.
43. Well, this is the estate of a large merchant, i.e. merchant. Lauer's house.
Well, the former Lenin Memorial now offers a completely authentic immersion in the world of not Central Russian, but precisely the Siberian village of a hundred years ago.
We will say goodbye to the Krasnoyarsk Territory on this and the next story will be about the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station named after P.I. Neporozhny, the largest in the country.
44. And for connoisseurs of provincial buses - the top flight units of the Shushensky ATP.
In the second quarter of the XIX century. the first political exiles appeared in Shushenskoye: the Decembrists P. I. Falenberg and A. F. Frolov. In February 1860, M. V. Butashevich-Petrashevsky, organizer and leader of political anti-government circles, was brought to Shushenskoye. Since the mid 1860s. a group of participants in the Polish uprising was serving a link, and in 1881 participants in the assassination attempt on Emperor Alexander II were referred here. In the 1880s-90s. People's Will members A. V. Orochko and P. A. Argunov served their exile in the village. Narodnaya Volya A. A. Voevodin and S. A. Nikonov are cited in Shushenskoye for preparing an assassination attempt on Alexander III. Exiled to the village V. I. Ulyanov (Lenin), N. K. Krupskaya, worker of the Putilov factory O. A. Enberg. Between 1918 and 1919 in Shushenskoye an underground organization was organized, which included local Bolsheviks. Subsequently, they took part in the November uprising against Kolchak in 1918, and in the establishment of Soviet power in 1919.
After the revolutionary events and the Civil War, noticeable transformations in Shushenskoye began with the arrival of the Orsha regiment in March 1920. By this time, the Revolutionary Committee of the Bolshevik Party under the leadership of Prokopiy Zakharovich Sukharnikov was already operating here. On July 31, 1920, a meeting of communists and activists sympathizing with them from among the former partisans took place in Shushenskoye. In the spring of 1920, local communists carried out explanatory work in the villages before the elections of village and volost councils.
In 1920-1921. the first partnerships for cultivating the land "Bednyak" and "Febralskoye" were organized. On August 16, 1921, the "Shushenskoye Society of Consumers" in memory of Lenin was opened. The agricultural department of the society organized a butter factory, opened a rental office for agricultural machinery, and provided the peasants with a seed loan.
There were no medical facilities in Shushenskoye until 1920. Back in 1924, the local population applied for medical help to Kaptyrevo. By the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution, a hospital was opened in Shushenskoye. In 1928, doctor S. I. Sharopov arrived at the hospital and opened a surgical department.
After the death of V. I. Lenin in 1924, a decision was made to buy out the house of P. O. Petrova, where Lenin lived, with public money, and open an exemplary house with a reading room and a library in it. In 1927 the first Soviet kindergarten was opened. In 1933 an agricultural technical school was organized in the village. In 1944, Shushenskoye became a district center. In 1946, the construction of the first two-story brick houses began. A hydroelectric power station has been put into operation, a telephone exchange is being equipped, two kindergartens and two playgrounds have been opened, the House of Soviets and the House of Culture have been built, the main educational building of the agricultural technical school, a secondary school for 600 students are being built.
In 1961, Shushenskoye was transformed into an urban-type workers' settlement. Open music and art schools. In the 1960s and 70s. a museum-reserve, hotels, camp sites, river and automobile stations, a network of institutions and enterprises of communications, trade, public catering, consumer services and culture are opened. The cinema "Iskra" and the House of Pioneers were built.
The film "Time Travel" from the series of programs "Unlost Paradise", 2014. Authors: Sergey Gerasimov, Denis Shtepa. Video provided by State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company "Krasnoyarsk"
Shushenskoye (Shush) was founded in 1744 by Russian Cossacks. For the first time, permanent settlers in Shusha are noted on the border map of the Krasnoyarsk and Kuznetsk districts, compiled in 1745–1746, which shows a village of four households, the inhabitants of which “came here by themselves,” that is, they settled without permission. They were from serving Yenisei Cossack families - Ivan Kropivin, Vasily Plishkin, as well as Dmitry Konev and the peasant Savva Butakov.
In the second half of the 18th century, Shush had already grown into a large settlement with about 250-300 inhabitants.
After the reform of 1822, Shushenskoye became a volost village, where there was a transit prison, the residence of the superintendent of state-owned settlements, bread "shops" (storehouses), trading shops, and a drinking establishment.
Map of the Siberian Province of 1821
In Shushenskoye, the Decembrists, colonel-engineer Pyotr Ivanovich Falenberg and lieutenant Alexander Filippovich Frolov, were serving their exile. In 1860, M. V. Petrashevsky was serving his exile in Shushenskoye, and F. M. Dostoevsky was a member of the circle.
The village is famous for the fact that V. I. Lenin was exiled there in 1897 and spent 3 years in exile. After the death of V.I. Lenin in 1924, the united mourning meeting of the Shushensky peasants decided to buy out the house of P.O. Petrova, where V.I. Lenin, and open an exemplary house in it with a hut-reading room and a library.
In 1927 the first kindergarten was opened, in 1933 an agricultural technical school was established. In 1944, Shushenskoye became a district center, in the same year a district hospital was opened.
In connection with the activities to perpetuate the memory of V.I. Lenin, Shushenskoye became one of the most comfortable regional centers in the region. A developed infrastructure has been created here: a museum-reserve, camp sites, an extensive network of institutions and enterprises of communication, trade, and culture.
Shushenskaya land has nurtured many talented original people. These are musicians, excellent students and veterans of culture S. Shchukin - Honorary citizen of the village, Yu. Noskov, V. Ovcharov, composers - Yu. Naumov, A. Paramonov, S. Romanenko, poets - V. Kulesh, L. Kolesova, N. Nyudikova , F. Lipai, artists - A. Chekhlov, V Zuev, D. Pavlov and V. Sofrygin.
Shushenskoye has been the capital of the International Festival of Ethnic Music "Sayan Ring" for many times. And the prize - a branded bronze statuette "Golden Iria" - became a real "Oscar" for its participants.
In Shushenskoye, the shooting of the All-Russian TV program “Play, accordion!” took place twice.
The life of the village, its prosperity, well-being, comfortable microclimate, the prosperity of its inhabitants are made up of big and small deeds, the daily painstaking work of each of us.
Shushenskoye occupies a worthy place among the settlements of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
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Shushenskoye (Shush) was founded in 1744 Russian Cossacks. For the first time, permanent settlers in Shusha are noted by the border map of the Krasnoyarsk and Kuznetsk districts, compiled in 1745-1746, which shows a village of four courtyards, the inhabitants of which “came here by themselves”, that is, they settled without permission. They were from serving Yenisei Cossack families - Ivan Kropivin, Vasily Plishkin, as well as Dmitry Konev and the peasant Savva Butakov.
The foundation of the village on the Shush River was due to the very favorable position of this place, where the road from Abakansky to Sayansky prison passed, which also connected the mines with the Lugazsky plant (now the area of the village of Znamenka).
In the second half of the 18th century, Shush had already grown into a large settlement with about 250-300 inhabitants.
AT 1791 with the help of the peasants of the surrounding villages, the Peter and Paul Church was built of stone and, accordingly, Shushenskoye acquired the status of a village.
After the reform of 1822, Shushenskoye became a volost village, where there was a transit prison, the residence of the superintendent of state-owned settlements, bread "shops" (storehouses), trading shops, and a drinking establishment.
Served exile in Shushenskoye Decembrists, colonel-engineer Pyotr Ivanovich Falenberg and lieutenant Alexander Filippovich Frolov. AT 1860 served exile in Shushenskoye M. V. Petrashevsky, whose "circle" included F. M. Dostoevsky.
The village is famous for being 1897 was exiled V. I. Lenin and spent three years in exile.
Population
| Population | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 1979 | 1989 | 2002 | 2007 | 2009 | 2010 | 2012 |
| 14 309 | ↗ 16 868 | ↗ 19 049 | ↗ 19 067 | ↘ 18 568 | ↘ 18 564 | ↘ 17 513 | ↘ 17 336 |
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | ||||
| ↘ 17 040 | ↘ 16 985 | ↘ 16 943 | ↘ 16 846 |
Economy
There is a poultry farm in the village. Tourism infrastructure is developing.
culture
Works in Shushenskoye Historical and Ethnographic Museum-Reserve "Shushenskoye"(formerly "Siberian exile of V. I. Lenin"). There is a regional cultural center (RCC), equipped with modern lighting and sound equipment. With 1970 the Shushenskaya Folk Art Gallery, created on the basis of the collection I. V. Rekhlova. December 24 2010 A monument to the emperor was unveiled near the checkpoint of Shushenskaya Marka LLC Nicholas II, which is a bronze bust on a high granite pedestal (sculptor K. M. Zinich).
In the village you can visit Lenin's Shalash (one of the most popular places for tourists).
With 2003(with the exception of 2006) Shushenskoye hosts an annual international festival ethnic music « Sayan ring". With 1995 organized national park Shushensky Bor", consisting of Perovsky forestry (located in the vicinity of the village) and Mountain forestry (the region of the Borus ridge, Western Sayan, Near Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP). On the territory of the reserve there is a site of primitive man.
Born in Shushenskoye
- AT 1859 was born in Shushenskoye I. I. Kraft- Governor of the Yakutsk region and the Yenisei province.
- Simon Ermolaev- peasant, deputy of the First State Duma of the Russian Empire from the Yenisei province.
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Notes
Links
- Alexander Panov.. // Around the world, No. 9 (2768), September 2004. Retrieved March 15, 2012. .
Literature
- Bukshpan P. Ya. Shushenskoye. Memorial Museum-Reserve "Siberian exile of V.I. Lenin". - M., 1976.
- Bykonya G.F. From the history of the settlement of the Minusinsk basin and the emergence of Shushenskoye // Essays on the socio-economic life of Siberia. - Novosibirsk, 1972. - Part 2.
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An excerpt characterizing Shushenskoye
- How is your health now? - said Princess Marya, herself surprised at what she said.“That, my friend, you need to ask the doctor,” he said, and, apparently making another effort to be affectionate, he said with one mouth (it was clear that he did not think at all what he was saying): “Merci, chere amie , d "etre venue. [Thank you, dear friend, for coming.]
Princess Mary shook his hand. He winced slightly as he shook her hand. He was silent and she didn't know what to say. She understood what had happened to him in two days. In his words, in his tone, and especially in that cold, almost hostile look, one could feel an estrangement from everything worldly, terrible for a living person. He apparently had difficulty understanding now all living things; but at the same time it was felt that he did not understand the living, not because he was deprived of the power of understanding, but because he understood something else, something that the living did not understand and could not understand and that absorbed him all.
- Yes, that's how strange fate brought us together! he said, breaking the silence and pointing to Natasha. - She keeps following me.
Princess Mary listened and did not understand what he was saying. He, sensitive, gentle Prince Andrei, how could he say this in front of the one he loved and who loved him! If he had thought to live, he would not have said it in such a coldly insulting tone. If he did not know that he was going to die, how could he not feel sorry for her, how could he say this in front of her! There could only be one explanation for this, that it was all the same to him, and all the same because something else, something more important, had been revealed to him.
The conversation was cold, incoherent, and interrupted incessantly.
“Marie passed through Ryazan,” said Natasha. Prince Andrei did not notice that she called his sister Marie. And Natasha, calling her that in his presence, noticed this for the first time.
- Well, what? - he said.
- She was told that Moscow was all burned down, completely, as if ...
Natasha stopped: it was impossible to speak. He obviously made an effort to listen, and yet he couldn't.
“Yes, it burned down, they say,” he said. “It’s very pitiful,” and he began to look ahead, absentmindedly smoothing his mustache with his fingers.
“Have you met Count Nikolai, Marie?” - said Prince Andrei suddenly, apparently wanting to please them. “He wrote here that he was very fond of you,” he continued simply, calmly, apparently unable to understand all the complex meaning that his words had for living people. “If you fell in love with him too, it would be very good ... for you to get married,” he added a little more quickly, as if delighted with the words that he had been looking for a long time and found at last. Princess Marya heard his words, but they had no other meaning for her, except that they proved how terribly far he was now from all living things.
- What can I say about me! she said calmly and looked at Natasha. Natasha, feeling her gaze on her, did not look at her. Again everyone was silent.
“Andre, do you want ...” Princess Mary suddenly said in a trembling voice, “do you want to see Nikolushka?” He always thought of you.
Prince Andrey smiled slightly perceptibly for the first time, but Princess Marya, who knew his face so well, realized with horror that it was not a smile of joy, not tenderness for her son, but a quiet, meek mockery of what Princess Mary used, in her opinion. , the last resort to bring him to his senses.
– Yes, I am very glad to Nikolushka. He is healthy?
When they brought Nikolushka to Prince Andrei, who looked frightened at his father, but did not cry, because no one was crying, Prince Andrei kissed him and, obviously, did not know what to say to him.
When Nikolushka was taken away, Princess Marya went up to her brother again, kissed him, and, unable to restrain herself any longer, began to cry.
He looked at her intently.
Are you talking about Nikolushka? - he said.
Princess Mary, weeping, bowed her head affirmatively.
“Marie, you know Evan…” but he suddenly fell silent.
- What are you saying?
- Nothing. There is no need to cry here,” he said, looking at her with the same cold look.
When Princess Mary began to cry, he realized that she was crying that Nikolushka would be left without a father. With great effort on himself, he tried to go back to life and transferred himself to their point of view.
“Yes, they must feel sorry for it! he thought. “How easy it is!”
“The birds of the air neither sow nor reap, but your father feeds them,” he said to himself and wanted to say the same to the princess. “But no, they will understand it in their own way, they will not understand! They cannot understand this, that all these feelings that they value are all ours, all these thoughts that seem so important to us that they are not needed. We can't understand each other." And he was silent.
The little son of Prince Andrei was seven years old. He could hardly read, he knew nothing. He experienced a lot after that day, acquiring knowledge, observation, experience; but if he had then mastered all these later acquired abilities, he could not have better, deeper understood the full significance of the scene that he saw between his father, Princess Mary and Natasha than he understood it now. He understood everything and, without crying, left the room, silently went up to Natasha, who followed him, looked shyly at her with beautiful, thoughtful eyes; his upturned ruddy upper lip quivered, he leaned his head against it and wept.
From that day on, he avoided Dessalles, avoided the countess who caressed him, and either sat alone or timidly approached Princess Mary and Natasha, whom he seemed to love even more than his aunt, and softly and shyly caressed them.
Princess Mary, leaving Prince Andrei, fully understood everything that Natasha's face told her. She no longer spoke to Natasha about the hope of saving his life. She took turns with her at his sofa and wept no more, but prayed incessantly, turning her soul to that eternal, incomprehensible, whose presence was now so palpable over the dying man.
