New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-06-21
THE RUSSIAN BROTHERS.

Towards the 1, '',le Vi lhe eighteenth cen
tury, there lived u u 'nni, ni, ,g yllIage OF th'
Ukraine two poor orpL an n;. cniiuteh; ~, VINO SUB
sisted entirely on public ca tne.r WhoL'
property consisted Of tan '0ui1nei Mhlcl
served to accompany their singins oh hoiiuay 1l
in the neighborng town Of Kharku w. lheS
we're both handsome boys, but dissiml. NJ Il
their appearance. Ivan, the eldest, wore HI
miserable rags with n certain air Of dignity.
| and arranged his beautiful hair in long and
graceful curls. The second, Plato, was sim
| pie, rustic Child, who enjoyed the noisy games
! OF his village comrades as much as Ivan did an
hour of proudly pensive solitude Both pos
sessel rich and powerful voices, whose sound
gained them scauty subsistence
One night as they lay down together on their
straw bel in the corner Of farmers stable
! Ivan said suddenly" Brother, pgor.le saw thai
| St. Petersburgh Is very large. -
g Yes replied PllIo, gravely, g but don
people also sly'that Paradise is very fine Y
= will go to ST. Petersburgh aud see all the
grandeur and glory Of the court murmured
Ivan. May God and 81. Nicholas assist me. .
Next morning, when Plato awoke, he found
his brothers place empty. Greatly alarmed
he followed his track on the new fallen snow for
several miles. until, fatigued and dispirited, he
returned to kharkow weeping and alone
Ivan meanwhile, pushed on brfvely, singing
as he vent, and regardless Of fatigue and pri-
white BUILDINGS of the carffol Uunor, onJ
faint, without a single kopte,, in his n6siet be
entered its stately streets: and durirt, tba on
suing five years, no one has traced record of
The Ycissituies which markell his lot At the end
Of that period, We find him handsome youth OF
one-and-g twenty, singing as chorister in the
chapel Of the Empress Elizabeth BY degra
he rose to be the prime favorite of the Empress
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With very Gttl. rer4mopv into tba stro.t I'M,
inr three davs he continued TO hover = ronnd
the palace. but without being able iptima TO NJ.
presenee to his brother Faint and foodIo 60 ON
the third evening, he felt ready to sink from
exhaustion The niobt vas calr ond 10 vo,y
Russia seemed trying to emulate the sEy ot
Italy, and soft odors gushed from the open win
dows of the palace. Presently some one ste, ,pet
out on the balcony, and the poor wander err
making n last effort, took his tamborine, ant
sang, in plaintive tone. one of the Mrs wi, icl
lie and his brother we're wont to sing long age
through the streets of Kharkow
An exclamation came from the balcony. tll,
window was quickly shut and Plato, murmur
ing the words, MY brother my beloved
Ivan y sank on the ground.
Four men came out of the palace. seized the
unhappy Plato. and DESPITE his feeble resistance.
carried him off and placed him in a close travel
ing chariot. Four swift Lvonian horses soon
left st. Peterburgb far behind them. and plato.
thoroughly overcome by hunger, fatigue and