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succession he had stamped the character and effect of the
Katkofskian re-action as injurious to Russia, — oblivious
of the fact that the Tsar himself, in a letter to Katkóf’s
widow just after his death, had called him Russia’s
greatest patriot.
Not far from him sat a younger man, whom love of
literature alone had brought into this circle, a wild and
free bird in defiance of anybody, Vsevolod Garshin. He
was strongly built, dark-haired, with the stamp of a
self-educated man. He rolled his eyes about in a strangely
watchful and wild manner: he had had repeated attacks
of insane melancholy, and fears were entertained for his
future condition. On no one did the reception given to
Katkóf make so profound an impression as on him. But
who could then imagine that, not many months later, the
almost universal servile attitude of the Russian press at
the death of Katkóf should be the occasion which caused
him permanently to lose control over his faculties. The
panegyrics over a man whose influence he regarded as
the root of all evil in the new era of the Russian Empire
gave a shock to his brain. At first he continually
groaned, — “No, I should never have believed that our
press was despicable to that extent, to that extent
low-minded: — What shall we do? what shall we then do?”
And again and again he broke out in sobs. After that
he sat for half a year in his black melancholy, and wept
continually. When he was asked the reason, he answered,
“I weep for Russia.” — In the hope of causing his
recovery, the directors of the railroads, by which he was
employed, gave him a leave of absence and the means to
travel south; but, the day before he was to set out, the
sick man put an end to his life by throwing himself over
the stairs from the upper story of the house in which he
lived with his young wife.
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