Куда идещь Россия,1

so that a well-disposed child, neglecting engineering, does not indulge in the destructive idleness, which, as you know, is the mother of all vices. Man loves to build and pave roads, it is indisputable. But why does he also love destruction and chaos before passion? Tell me that! But I myself want to say two words about this myself. Is it because, perhaps, he loves destruction and chaos so much (after all, it is indisputable that he sometimes loves it very much) that he is instinctively afraid of reaching his goal and completing the building being built? How much do you know, maybe he loves a building only from afar, and by no means close; maybe he just loves to build it, and not live in it, then providing it with aux animaux domestiques 1, such as ants, rams, etc., and so on. Here are the ants of a completely different taste. They have one amazing building of the same kind, forever indestructible - an anthill.

Chilly?

And he shrugged.

“Very,” the neighbor answered with extreme readiness, “and, mind you, this is still a thaw.” Well, if it were frost? I didn’t even think it was so cold here. Weaned.

- From abroad, what?

- Yes, from Switzerland.

- Few! Ek, after all! ..

The black-haired man whistled and laughed.

A conversation ensued. The readiness of a blond young man in a Swiss cloak to answer all the questions of his naughty neighbor was amazing and without any suspicion of perfect negligence, inappropriateness and idleness of other questions. In response, he announced, by the way, that he had not really been in Russia for a long time, for over four years, that he had been sent abroad due to illness, some strange nervous illness, such as lap or walt dancing, some kind of trembling and convulsions. Listening to him, the black man grinned several times; he laughed especially when the question: “Well, have you been cured?” - the blond replied that “no, they didn’t.”

- heh! Money that must have overpaid for nothing, and we have something here they believe - quipped nigger.

- The true truth! - one man sitting nearby and badly dressed, got involved in the conversation, something like an official who was numb in the groomsman, about forty, of strong build, with a red nose and an acne face, - the truth is, sir, only all Russian forces are donating themselves!

“Oh, how wrong you are in my case,” the Swiss patient intercepted in a quiet and conciliatory voice, “of course I can’t argue, because I don’t know everything, but my doctor gave me one of his last ones to get here and almost two years there at his own expense contained.

- Well, there was nobody to pay, or what, was? - I asked the nigger.

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Yes, Mr. Pavlishchev, who kept me there, died two years ago; I then wrote here to Generals Yepanchina, my distant relative, but received no answer. So he came with that.

“Where have you come?”

“That is, where will I stop? .. Yes, I don’t know yet, right ... so ...

- Not yet decided?

And both listeners laughed again.

- And I suppose all this essence is in this knot? - I asked the nigger.

“I’m ready to bet that it’s so,” the red-faced official picked up with an extremely pleased look, “and that there is no further luggage in the luggage cars, although poverty is not a vice, which again cannot be overlooked.”

It turned out that this was also so: the blond young man immediately and with extraordinary haste admitted this.

“Your nodule still has some significance,” the official continued, when he had laughed at it (it’s wonderful that the nodal owner himself finally began to laugh, looking at them, which increased their hilarity), “and although it’s possible to beat, it’s not gold overseas parcels with Napoleonders and Friedrichsdor, below with Dutch arapists, which can be concluded at least only with the shoes that clothe your foreign shoes, but ... if you add to your knot in addition a kind of relative, like, roughly, a general Ep Anchin, then the knot will take on a slightly different meaning, of course, only if General Yepanchin is really a relative and you are not mistaken, out of distraction ... which is very, very characteristic of man, well, at least ... from an excess of imagination.

“Oh, you guessed it again,” the blond young man said, “after all, I am really almost mistaken, that is, almost not a relative; to the point that I, rightly, was not at all surprised at the time that they didn’t answer me there. I was waiting.

- Spent money on franking letters for nothing. Um ... at least innocent and sincere, and this is laudable! Um ... we know General Yepanchin, actually, because the person is well-known; and the late Mr. Pavlishchev, who kept you in Switzerland, was also known, if only it was Nikolai Andreevich Pavlishchev, because their two cousins. Another hitherto in the Crimea, and Nikolai Andreyevich, the deceased, was a respectable man, and with connections, and four thousand souls at one time had ...

“Exactly so, his name was Nikolai Andreevich Pavlishchev,” and, answering, the young man gazed intently and inquisitively at the gentleman.

These gentlemen are know-it-alls sometimes, even quite often, in a well-known social stratum. They know everything, all the restless inquisitiveness of their mind and ability rush uncontrollably in one direction, of course, in the absence of more important life interests and views, as a modern thinker would say. By the word "everyone knows," one must understand, however, the area is rather limited: where does he serve someone with whom he is familiar, how much fortune he has, where he was the governor, whom he is married to, how many he took for his wife, who is his cousin, who are second cousins, etc., etc., and all that sort of thing. For the most part, these nerdy go with ragged elbows and receive seventeen rubles a month of salary. People whom they know all the ins and outs of course would not have figured out what interests guide them, and yet many of them are positively comforted by this knowledge, which equals a whole science, and they achieve self-esteem and even the highest spiritual contentment. And science is seductive. I have seen scientists, writers, poets, politicians who have acquired and attained their highest reconciliation and goals in the same science, even having made their careers positively. During the whole of this conversation, swarthy young man yawned, looked out the window without a goal, and was looking forward to the end of the journey. He was somehow absent-minded, something very absent-minded, almost alarmed, even becoming somehow strange: sometimes he listened and did not listen, looked and did not look, laughed and sometimes did not know and did not understand what he was laughing at.

- And let me, with whom I have the honor ... - suddenly an acrid gentleman turned to a blond young man with a bundle.

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Prince Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin, - he answered with full and immediate readiness.

- Prince Myshkin? Lev Nikolaevich? I don’t know, sir. So I didn’t even hear it, sir, the official answered in thought, not found anywhere, even the rumor subsided, sir.

- Oh, surely! - the prince answered at once, - now there are no princes of the Myshkins at all, except me; I think I'm the last. As for the fathers and grandfathers, they were with us as one-mansions. My father, however, was a second lieutenant in the army, from the cadets. But I don’t know how Generals Yepanchina also came from the princesses of the Myshkins, also the last of her kind ...

- Hehe hehe! The last of its kind! Hehe! How did you turn it, ”the official giggled.

The black man grinned too. Blond was somewhat surprised that he managed to say a rather, but bad, pun.

“And imagine, I said without thinking at all,” he finally explained in surprise.

“Yes, understand, sir, understand, sir,” the official cheerfully assented.

“And what, prince, did you study sciences there, with a professor?” - Asked suddenly the black man.

- Yes ... studied ...

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But I've never learned anything.

“Why, I am so, for some reason,” added the prince, almost apologizing. - I was not found to be able to systematically teach me because of illness.

- Do you know the Rogozhins? - I asked quickly nigger.

- No, I don’t know, at all. I know very few people in Russia. Are you Rogozhin?

- Yes, I, Rogozhin, Parfen.

- Parthen? But these are not the very Rogozhins ... - the official began with heightened importance.

- Yes, those same ones - quickly and with rude impatience interrupted nigger who did, however, and did not apply to the acne never official, but from the beginning said only one prince.

- Yes ... how is it? - the official was surprised to the point of tetanus and his eyes almost bulged up, and his face immediately turned into something reverent, and obsequious, even frightened - this is the same Semyon Parfenovich Rogozhin, a hereditary honorary citizen who died a month ago and two and a half million capital left?

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