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was to write a story with the title : ‘The Sisters
Rajevsky during the Commune,’ and amongst
other interesting scenes, to describe a night
in an ambulance where she and Aniuta did
service, and where they met some young girls
of their early acquaintance in St Petersburg.
While shells were exploding all around, and
wounded persons were constantly being brought
in, the young women talked in a whisper about
past times, which were so different from their
present life and surroundings; it all seemed like
a dream or a fairy tale.
Sonia was still at the age when grand and
thrilling historical events impress one like a
sensation novel; she saw bombs bursting
without the slightest fear, it only gave her a pleasant
feeling of excitement, an inward exultation, to
live in the midst of this drama.
This time she could do nothing for her sister.
Aniuta had flung herself with passionate energy
into the political movement, and wished for
no better fate than to risk her life with the man
to whom she had united her lot for ever. So,
shortly after these events, the Kovalevskys left
Paris again, and Sonia resumed her studies
in Berlin.
But after the fall of the Commune she was
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