| Chapter I. My Nurse and the Grande Armeé—Moscow in Flames—My Father and Napoleon—General Ilovaiski—A Journey with French Prisoners—Patriotism—Calot—Property Managed in Common—The Division—The Senator. |
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| Chapter II. Gossip of Nurses and Conversation of Generals—A False Position—Boredom—The Servants’ Hall—Two Germans—Lessons and Reading—Catechism and the Gospel. |
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| Chapter III. Death of Alexander I—The Fourteenth of December—Moral Awakening—Bouchot—My Cousin—N. Ogaryóv. |
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| Chapter IV. My Friend Niko and the Sparrow Hills. |
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| Chapter V. Details of Home Life—Men of the Eighteenth Century in Russia—A Day at Home—Guests and Visitors—Sonnenberg—Servants. |
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| Chapter VI. The Kremlin Offices—Moscow University—The Chemist—The Cholera—Philaret—Passek. |
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| Chapter VII. End of College Life—The “Schiller” Stage—Youth—The Artistic Life—Saint—Simonianism and N. Polevói—Polezháev. |
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| Chapter I. A Prophecy—Ogaryóv’s Arrest—The Fires—A Moscow Liberal—Mihail Orlóv—The Churchyard. |
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| Chapter II. Arrest—The Independent Witness—A Police-Station—Patriarchal Justice. |
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| Chapter III. Under the Belfry—A Travelled Policeman—The Incendiaries. |
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| Chapter IV. The Krutitski Barracks—A Policeman’s Story—The Officers. |
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| Chapter V. The Enquiry—Golitsyn Senior—Golitsyn Junior—General Staal—The Sentence—Sokolovski. |
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| Chapter VI. Exile—A Chief Constable—The Volga—Perm. |
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| Chapter VII. Vyatka—The Office and Dinner-table of His Excellency—Tufáyev. |
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| Chapter VIII. Officials—Siberian Governors—A Bird of Prey—A Gentle Judge—An Inspector Roasted—The Tatar—A Boy of the Female Sex—The Potato Revolt—Russian Justice. |
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| Chapter IX. Alexander Vitberg. |
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| Chapter X. The Crown Prince at Vyatka—The Fall of Tufáyev—Transferred to Vladímir—The Inspector’s Enquiry. |
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| Chapter XI. The Beginning of my Life at Vladímir. |
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