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IV
LIFE IN RUSSIA
Very different indeed is the present picture of
the family from the description Sonia has given
in the memoirs of her childhood (‘Sisters
Rajevsky’). The two young girls, dreaming of
the wide unknown world, had now changed into
highly-experienced women. Though their
youthful anticipations had scarcely been realised, they
had seen and heard enough to have plenty of
subjects for conversation during the winter
evenings at their fireside in the large
drawing-room with the red silk damask furniture, whilst
the samovar was singing on the tea-table, and
the starving wolves were performing their nightly
concert outside in the lonely park. The world
had lost something of its immensity in their
eyes, for they had seen a good deal of it, and
measured its proportions.
Aniuta had passed through a sufficiently
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