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(1895) Author: Anne Charlotte Leffler, Sofja Kovalevskaja Translator: Louise von Cossel
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on official business. On these occasions he was
generally accompanied by his family.

When Tania was five years old, the Rajevskis
resided for some time in Kaluga. There were
three children, two daughters and a son. By
this time, Aniuta, the elder sister, was twelve
years old, Fedia, the brother, three. Their
nursery was a large low room, so low, that
Njania (Russian, nurse), touched the ceiling
when she stood on a chair. All three children
slept there. Aniuta was to have shared the
room of her governess—the French scarecrow,
as they called her—but she did not want to,
and so she remained with the others.

Njania had an enormous bed, which was her
pride: it was like a mountain of pillows and
eider-downs. Now and then the children were
allowed to climb up on the top of it, and it
was their great delight to plunge down into
this feathery deep.

There was always a peculiar smell in this
nursery—a mixture of incense, tallow candle,
oil, and birch-balm, which Njania used for her
gout.

The governess never entered this room without
holding her pocket-handkerchief to her nose, to
keep out the disgusting smell.

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