I particularly loved this work - forest, stillness, sky, horses... All of these were so familiar and kind... and have changed not in the slightest degree! People? No! They have changed enormorously.

<All our civil servants had to write the so-called "personal histories". My Father's younger sister Lisa had been married to Aleksey Ivanovich Bogachev. A good file boner he unexpectedly proved to be a hero at The Great War. In 1917 revolution he was killed by his own soldiers. And now his daughter Lenochka wrote in her personal history that her mother had got married being already pregnant, so her father was not a tsarist colonel but a gipsy stableman. She didn't think shame to spit on her father's grave or throw slops on her mother's head!>