Petersburg And Warsaw Scenes Witnessed During a Residence in Poland And Russia
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He was no longer breathing the atmo- sphere of a prison ; he was in the open air outside Wilna. He cast a glance of recogni- tion upon my friend and myself, who stood amongst the crowd, and then, whilst calmly offering his last prayer to Heaven, the signal was given, the soldiers fired, arid he lay still and dead before us the first ball had gone through his heart. This was Macovetzky, who was shot on the 29th of last August, in accordance with the sentence of a court-martial. Sen- tence had be...en pronounced, and the day fixed for his execution, when he gave me the statuette, but he knew nothing of his intended fate till he was led out to be shot. In the evening, when I was leaving General Moura- vieff's study, he said suddenly, "Ah, I had almost forgotten it ; here is something which 60 Petersburg and Warsaw, belongs to you ; " and he took from his table and placed in my hand the statuette which had been given me by Macovetzky. I received it with a strange sensation : it seemed to me like a present from the dead.
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