Further, it is equally well known that the lawyer's training emphasizes the objective over the subjective, the rational and logical over the emotional and personal. He does not go back to Poland through greed, and through greed endures snow till St.The busy life of the practicing attorney is proverbial and leaves but little room and time for the demands of home.
At Ishim a wealthy Pole, Pan Zalyessky, who has a daughter like Sasha Kiselyov, for a rouble gave me an excellent dinner and a room to sleep in he keeps an inn and has become a money-grubber to the marrow of his bones he fleeces everyone, but yet one feels the Polish gentleman in his manner, in the way the meals are served, in everything. Upon the amnesty the former went back to their own country, but soon returned to Siberia again-here they are better off the latter dream of their native land, though they are old and infirm. Some of them live in a very wealthy way others are very poor, and serve as clerks at the stations. They are good, hospitable, and very refined people. There are a few exiles here, sent from Poland in 1864. One hears nothing of exploitation by the Jews. The wife of the Jew who had cancer regaled me with pike caviare and with most delicious white bread. I saw a tall thin Jew who scowled with disgust and spat when the “president” told indecent stories: a chaste soul his wife makes splendid fish-soup. They enjoy universal respect, and according to the “president” they are not infrequently chosen as village elders.
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Here they till the land, work as drivers and ferry-men, trade and are called Krestyany, because they are de jure and de facto Krestyany. The Jew was exhausted, hardly breathing, but that did not prevent the feldsher from cupping him twelve times. I examined a Jew with cancer in the liver. Bleeding and cupping are done on a grandiose, brutal scale.
Malignant smallpox is prevalent here, but strange to say, it is less contagious than in other parts of the world two or three catch it and die and that is the end of the epidemic. The children sleep on soft beds and lie as long as they like, drink tea and eat with the men, and scold the latter when they laugh at them affectionately. They are not severe with their children, they spoil them. They act as drivers when their husbands are away from home they like making jokes.
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One drinks tea and talks with the peasant women, who are sensible, tenderhearted, industrious, as well as being devoted mothers and more free than in European Russia their husbands don’t abuse or beat them, because they are as tall, as strong, and as clever as their lords and masters are. It warms one through and drives away sleep one eats a lot of bread with it, and in the absence of other nourishment, bread has to be eaten in great quantities that is why peasants eat so much bread and farinaceous food. I know its value now, and drink it with the fury of a Yanov. In the morning between five and six o’clock one drinks tea at a hut. So I drove in felt boots till they collapsed from the mud and the damp. So comfortable in the frost! I had to buy felt over-boots in Ishim…. Picture my agony! I keep getting out of the chaise, sitting down on damp ground and taking off my boots to rest my heels. To my mind it is better to go barefoot than to wear cheap boots.
Cheapness in Russian goods is the label of worthlessness. My sweet Misha, if you ever have any children, which I have no doubt you will, the advice I bequeath to them is not to run after cheap goods. It seems my strong boots were the cause, being too tight at the back.
Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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