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He frequently visited his brother at Palibino,
and would remain for weeks. The arrival was
hailed as a festival by the children, and his
presence always made the house more bright
and cheerful.
His favourite room was the library, where he
would sit the whole day without stirring from
the large leather sofa, quite absorbed in the
Revue des deux Mondes, his favourite reading.
In fact, reading was his only mania; he took
great interest in politics, and devoured the
newspapers that came once a week; he would
brood over them for hours, wondering what new
villanies Napoleon would commit, and worrying
himself a good deal about Bismarck too. He
felt convinced that Napoleon would make
havoc with the Germans in the end, and as he
did not live to see 1870, he died in this
conviction.
In politics, Peter Sergejevitsch was dreadfully
bloodthirsty. To massacre an army of a
hundred thousand men seemed a mere trifle to
him. In theory, he was equally merciless in
punishing criminals, though in real life he took
all men to be good and honest.
He had frequent skirmishes with the governess,
whom he irritated by saying that all the English
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