THE CAPTAIN’S DAUGHTER DOUBROVSKY THE QUEEN OF SPADES AN AMATEUR PEASANT GIRL THE SHOT THE SNOWSTORM THE POST MASTER THE COFFIN-MAKER KIRDJALI THE EGYPTIAN NIGHTS PETER THE GREAT’S NEGRO My father, Andrei Petrovitch Grineff, after having served in his youth under Count Münich,[1] quitted the service, in the year 17--, with the rank of senior major. He settled down upon his estate in the district of Simbirsk, where he married Avdotia Vassilevna U----, the daughter of a poor nobleman of the neighbourhood. Nine children were the result of this marriage. All my brothers and sisters died in their infancy. I was enrolled as a sergeant in the Semenovsky Regiment, thro…
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