The Desolation of Roslavl
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—The fugitives giving up their horses.
First they were as "gipsies," but now they have turned into a Khitrof market.[1]
Numbers of the fugitives, the great majority of them, having exhausted their last strength and reached the railway:
—Have the last thing to do as peasants.
They sell their horses.
And thence go onward
—In the train.
Waiting in an open-air camp in Roslavl for a week or so, until
—They are given places.
And with what desperation do they cling to the possession of their horses.
Here I made the acquaintance of a fugitive.
—A bitter man.
- ↑ A notorious district in Moscow, where beggars, tramps, and thieves congregate, and where there are many doss-houses.
