![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Had Mother – God forbid! – given birth to a daughter, Father would have notified the authorities of the death of the sergeant who had failed to report for duty. And so the narrator, without any bid for sympathy, makes clear that he was raised as an only child and clearly was indulged by his parents.Īs a retired lieutenant colonel claiming Prince B as a close relative, his father had social connections that ensured Grinyov’s passage into adult life would be easy: “I was enrolled as a sergeant in the Semyonov regiment while still in my mother’s womb. My brothers and sisters all died in infancy”. His approach is witty and direct he takes little credit, although as the story unfolds and becomes tense and darker, he does acquire increasing resourcefulness. Pyotr Grinyov, a Russian nobleman, recalls a fraught interlude in his youth which was to become the defining moment of his life. ![]()
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