Abstract

In Petersburg in the forties an event occurred that astonished everyone: a handsome gentleman, a prince, commander of the home guard of the Cuirassiers, for whom everyone predicted an aide-de-camp's post and a brilliant career with the emperor Nicholas I, a month before his wedding with a beautiful maid of honor who enjoyed the special favor of the empress, retired his post, broke off his engagement, gave his small estate to his sister and went into a monastery, with the intention of becoming a monk. The event seemed extraordinary and inexplicable to those who did not know the inner reasons for it.

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