The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-05-31
RoRoplNo AND MOSCOW.


Talk with Russian Survivor or the 1919 Campaign.
New York Timesl
Scarcely had we all assembled In the drawing. room
after dinner was over when fresh guests began To
drop In. among whom one figure that seem cd 10
dwarf every other In the room. Tho towering height,
the massive fcatures the lionlIkc gray head with It's
deep, sad, earnest eyes, would have told at glance
10 any one who had seen him that this was no
other than ivan sergeicyltch rurgcnie, the great
est OF Kussns novests, who was the first to de-
nounce Nihllism by the name II still bears, aud
whose ro,mances, gloomy and terrible though they
are, VIII he of priceless value TO fturc historians M
the most perfect photograph In existence OF Russian
life and manners In the Nineteenth Century. lie
was instantly surrounded by the company (ncarly
all 81 whom were personally acquainted with HIM
anu overwhelmed with questions about the novel
upon which he was then engaged. But he replied
very briefly TO their queries and sautaiions, and
when looked around again he was standing by the
fireplace talkngt0 Nine. Milutlnc, whose graceful
figure and rich Clrcasslan beauty conlrastcd very
nney with The great writer's commanding stature
AMI granc-hcwn face.
Just then caught a fragment OF Count lie Bcrgs
conversation with MOuravien Amourski, which !
had good cause to remember few years later on
!nc border line between China and Central Asia:
1.-THE EDglish' No fear OF their disturbing us for
good while yet. They don't know enough about the
geography OF Central Asia TO understand how fast
we're moving on, and can tell, having been ont
there lnyse.f, how quietly that sort OF thing can he
done. Ignailef knew thing or two in that way,
didn't he9 And as for the natives, IL they ever try
to combine against us all VIC have TO do is TO give
each of the Khans few thousand rrbles and a few
hundred Cossacks, set them all by the cars together
and then march over their bodies to the oxus with
"And Chna9" suggested Mouraylcn, with very
Significant emphasis. IAN IN good time for that,h
i've WONT take the trouble to no 10 war with her
ourselves, though. Wen walt TIL she's involved in
war with some one else and then put on pressure
Just ut the right moment, az did when the French
and English took pekin In 1900"
At that moment espied In corner an Old man In
Turaenieii mad Inst turned away after exnhan%n"
a few words with him, lie WAS evidently yerSinS
upon extreme age and his thin dark face framed
In snow-vhie hair looked llke some oI'l Italian
painting, hit bowed and feeble though he now was
there wss nameless something il hIs ioos and
hcarinw Which snvvesed ,nat he nua ms Sec m
gallant soldier in Ills prime long Years aro l was
still watching him when Nine MIlu,Ine came nm and
said 10 and talk TO that old gentleman. he'a one
OF inc last OF orr Borodino soldiers nn, hc can te,
Won more about Napoleon and The retreat iron, Nina
ron of James\ here il n gentleman from Enoland
who would like 10 hear something of what Won snw
in the year isiao ~" '""
+" IN Won win he 40 COOL pavel Yakov,tch ~ ad,,ed
L. womb obijpe me very much Everythjnr IN Inter
estng that ms TO do with the greatest wear OF ms
sian history. when " '''''
az j,arkiai ,Ie TOLL KutooyoT
F'dyaynadtzatom goiu morozIll FrantzoozofI.'n
barclay de folly and Kuioozoii in the year 1872
froze the Frenchl
WAhai Have Won picked that I'm already 81 said
the veteran. with thin piping laugh. "Yes, that
dren's children Will talk oil n hundreds of Years
after we are dcai and gone lie came against is In
God as he was; hut he melted like snow i'm the s,,
shine and skunk away az A wolf slinks into n forest
at dawn. felt when j saw him that he conl,ln't
last.n
Have Won really seen Nanoeon face In facc
then.o asked I, beginning to be Interested. "
ba,iIs eds Was ony nov H tnen int u M NJ, nv
going TO hang hack whet, the RUSSIAN mn waa Nv
ing against All invader, and begged my father 10
lei me serve with his battery in Inc rani Eeionht
winch was the centre of onr lima nj Rorn,iino When
the morning broke it was ali one r@at sea OF rrav
mist on every side of ,is bmt t,rouyR tho gloon, IN
our front we could hear the Voices Of Ire enem ",
and the neighng of their horses and the rumble OF
their artillery Wheels. Then suddenly the cannon
on boih sies bppan IN roar n,nL ng tne very aarih
tremble under our feet. Ever when The ION rnse
the smoke was so thick that couldn't zee anSthinS
except a flash of ire now and then like iip6tnins
in a cloud. Int from the sound Of The tir,ng +
seemed to me rs II the battle were hot nil along he
line except Just where we we're Thought orr turn
would never come hut when IL did il came win n
vengeance All the fights that ever fonght " land
the old warriors eyes flashed ire as he spoke,
times ali our gunners were Killed 70 the last nm
and three times others came forward To- take their
All nas s a a s ,s az wtn the whoop
bursting bombs and the whiz OF bullets fiyin~ thick
as hall. Men dropped dead or mangied every mo-
ment, and no one minded them. Onr blood was an
fire and al, looked red before our ewes leverv ana
was mad Al last we heard n strange sonnd i,r lin in
the ,iisfance like rain natferinv on wiihereI ,aaaa
which grew io,ider I'M il filled the air iike ihe rnar,
of a stormy sea. and All nj once n great ,yava "i
bright swords ana helmets and horses heads came
srpinp mn over the breastworE in front nf ms Una
cavalry OF the Imperial Guard were upon u.s. and in
moment iet shock ike falling mountain, and
ntls
when came TO myself again ali was slii ey
ce ut few droppng shots i'm lie distance The hal
tie seemed to he over although there was red glare
low down In the sky, showing where Eorodln1 vii.
age was on fire. NV father law within three vases
OF me- crushed ami dead. md beside him sboi
thrOnph the heart was col Cnmiaincnmrtt tha
Frenchman who hai led the charge. Sm,,,ssn,v wi
heard a trampny of hoofs and several yoices tair
ing loudly In FRENCH ana mad lust time TO Green
under pun carriage when n uroiin of 0aylv Iresae,
hOrsemeI came past whom Guessed nj once 10 Inc
Napoleon sta riding over the battle field for there
were several of them whom Knew Inv sirht already
here were the hard faces az Warm' any n &
broad. chesed Sebastiani and Nansontv with the
sabre scar across his cheek and the low broad
forehead and bulldog Jaw OF grim Old New. tae
brayest of them all There loo was Murat with
his white pumes and his braided Jacket. his long.
whn in his hand. inst ike Circus rdsr AMI l na,
the rrOup parted suddenly. and there was the man
himself In the midst of Them. with his lace hari
agony nnd a far-lwayi Kind Of link IN thnse cnid
gray eyes of MIS- as il he saw Moscow somewhere
ga glorious viciory!' cried Murat, waving hls
hand sWhaf n stir iherell he anon, Iha s,nn .1
folks in Paris when the Snllet,n a,riyrs tue gooa
"sWe'ye lost half our army in doing IT. thouph
prowied New .Uadn't we betier faii hacs lii,,,a
and wait for reipforceluents?, ''''
WTien Napoleon turned hls head s,ov,v inst 40
statue might do and looked him full in iha fare
sThou advising a retrent MchaI3 maj IL somafhinr
new, indeed! Memo falling back now: / mmsi
date my bulletin from Mosco,y Al for tha orn,y
yOn can't make an omelette without breaEing faw
eggs ~"
when heard him say that knew that God had
sr,lctiOn coud have snoEen I'M iivhtIv nf the aonh
ter of thousands of brave men And snre enongh
within three months from that day he ,va nvims, tr
his life across the border with the Cossacts NJ his
heels like hungry wolyesn ~ ''''
Hsre the ali man nansed an, soomo, q, Ia, MIA |
thoughts stray hack 10 the stirring scenes ina, he
had been Describing Blt mis- sllence dd MOI endure
long 'The aliusion TO Napoleon's night naturally
recalled Ills own experience of the dreadful retreat
IRON MOSCOW una IN another moment he was reat