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Born February 2, 1960 in Leningrad, Russian.

Graduated from the Lenin Komsomol Higher Naval School of Diving.

Served in the Northern Fleet, on nuclear submarines.

Studied as an adjunct student in the specialty " military history"After demobilization he worked as a research assistant at Public library, teacher at school, taught a special course at Pedagogical University.

Since 1992 - press secretary of Metropolitan John of St. Petersburg and Ladoga, head of his information and analytical group, member of the editorial board of Orthodox Rus'.

He is considered the real author of articles and books published on behalf of Metropolitan John (“a completely helpless man”, who “could not really connect two words, much less write those books and articles that were published under his name” - NovG, No. 31- 32, 27.04-04.05.2006).

He was the chairman of the Union of Orthodox Brotherhoods of St. Petersburg.

Since 1997 - editor of the newspaper "Orthodox Rus'".

He was number 12 on the electoral list of the Constitutional Democratic Party - People's Freedom Party in the elections (KDP-PNS) of Mikhail Astafiev to the State Duma of the Russian Federation in the fall of 1993. The KDP-PNS did not collect the required number of signatures.

On April 2, 1995, he was elected a member of the National Council of the Social Patriotic Movement "Derzhava" of Alexander Rutsky. At the “Power” congress on August 26, 1995, he was approved in the federal part of the election list under N3.

Since 1995 - Chairman of the Christian Patriotic Union (CPU).

Since 1996 - member of the Central Council of the VOPA "Spiritual Heritage" Alexey Podberezkin.

In October 2004, Patriarch Alexy, addressing the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church, sharply condemned the activities of “Orthodox Rus'”: “We know many people who have the means and publish newspapers (such as, for example, “Orthodox Rus'”) that discredit the Church and its hierarchs. They try to bring discord and doubt into the souls of believers. All their activities boil down to attempts to divide the Church." (Kredo.ru, October 6, 2004).

In 2004, at the trial for the murder of Galina Starovoytova, he gave evidence indicating an alibi for the main accused, Yuri Kolchin. An alibi was not accepted, but no case of perjury was brought against Dushenov himself (NovG, No. 31-32, 04/27/05/4/2006).

In January 2005, he published the so-called "a letter from 500 representatives of the Russian public" who appealed to the Prosecutor General demanding the closure of "all religious and national Jewish associations as extremist."

On March 11, 2005, the Russian Jewish Congress (RJC) demanded that the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation initiate criminal proceedings against those who signed the letter. Dushenov said in response that “he would be glad if the story with the letter became a high-profile open process” and that after the publication of the letter, FSB officers came to the editorial office several times “for confidential conversations.” (Kommersant, March 12, 2005)

At the end of March 2006, he signed an appeal from a group of national-patriotic figures associated with the International Fund Slavic writing and culture, to the Prosecutor General, the director of the FSB, the Minister of Internal Affairs, the speakers of both houses, etc. with a demand to deprive Rabbi Berl Lazar of Russian citizenship, “and his religion of the status of “traditional”.”

In the article “Warning in the genre of denunciation” (“Soviet Russia”, N36, April 1994), Dushenov, rejecting accusations of anti-Semitism by Gleb Yakunin against Metropolitan John, writes: “We cannot resist the pleasure of quoting the statements of John Chrysostom: “The synagogue is a den of thieves and a den of wild beasts. Demons live there, and not only in this place, but also in the very souls of the Jews..."

He believes that Orthodoxy should become the state religion of Russia.

Supporter of the canonization of Ivan the Terrible and Grigory Rasputin.

Monarchist conciliarist.

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Graduated from the Lenin Komsomol Higher Naval School of Diving.

Served in the Northern Fleet, on nuclear submarines.

He studied as an adjunct student majoring in military history. After demobilization, he worked as a research assistant at the Public Library, as a teacher at school, and taught a special course at the Pedagogical University.

Since 1992 - press secretary of Metropolitan John of St. Petersburg and Ladoga, head of his information and analytical group, member of the editorial board of Orthodox Rus'.

He was the chairman of the Union of Orthodox Brotherhoods of St. Petersburg.

Since 1997 - editor of the newspaper "Orthodox Rus'".

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Since 1995 - Chairman of the Christian Patriotic Union (CPU).

Since 1996 - member of the Central Council of the VOPA "Spiritual Heritage" Alexey Podberezkin.

At the end of March 2006, he signed an appeal from a group of national-patriotic figures associated with the International Foundation for Slavic Literature and Culture to the Prosecutor General, the director of the FSB, the Minister of Internal Affairs, the speakers of both houses, etc., demanding that Rabbi Berl Lazar be deprived of Russian citizenship, “and his religion "traditional" status.

Konstantin Yurievich Dushenov- Russian public figure, publicist, director of the Analytical Information Agency “ORTHODOX Rus'”; author of books, articles and films of a patriotic nature.

Konstantin Dushenov was born on February 2, 1960 in Leningrad in the family of a hereditary military man. In 1977-1987 he served in the USSR Navy. Graduated from the Lenin Komsomol Higher Naval School of Diving. He served in the Northern Fleet on nuclear submarines of Project 671RTM and 667A as commander of a missile and torpedo group, commander of a mine and torpedo warhead. In 1983 for execution special task command was awarded the medal "For Military Merit". He studied as an adjunct student majoring in military history. The topic of the dissertation is “Naval forces of capitalist states in local wars and armed conflicts after the Second World War.”

In 1987 he received holy baptism. He was expelled from the ranks of the CPSU with the wording “For activities incompatible with the high rank of a Soviet officer” and demobilized. After demobilization, he worked as a research assistant at the Public Library, as a teacher at school, and taught a special course “Religious Aspects of Russian Culture” at the Pedagogical University of St. Petersburg.

He actively participated in Orthodox-patriotic movements and political organizations: he was the chairman of the Union of Orthodox Brotherhoods of St. Petersburg, the chairman of the Christian Patriotic Union (CPU), a member of the Central Council of the VOPA “Spiritual Heritage”, the chairman of the Society of Zealots for the Glorification of the Holy Royal Martyrs...

In 1992–1995, Dushenov was press secretary of Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga Ioann (Snychev). He actively contributed to the publication of the Metropolitan’s works on the pages of the newspapers “Soviet Russia”, “Den”, “Patriot”, and in the magazines “Nash Sovremennik” and “Moscow”. Since 1997 - editor-in-chief of the newspaper Rus Pravoslavnaya.

In January 2005, he published in his newspaper “Letter from 500 representatives of the Russian public,” who drew the attention of the Prosecutor General to the extremist component of the Jewish faith. The publication caused outrage among Talmudists around the world, who were supported by the US State Department and the Israeli government. After the publication, the prosecutor’s office issued a warning to Dushenov “about the inadmissibility of extremist actions”

On March 11, 2005, the Russian Jewish Congress (RJC) demanded that the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation initiate criminal proceedings against those who signed the letter. The chairman of the RJC, Slutsker, filed a lawsuit against Dushenov, but lost the case. In 2006, the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia demanded that Dushenov be brought to criminal responsibility “for anti-Semitism.”

At the beginning of 2005, Dushenov headed the video studio “Pole Kulikovo”. At the end of the year, the first film of Dushenov’s trilogy, “Russia with a Knife in the Back,” shot at this studio, was released. "Jewish fascism and the genocide of the Russian people."

The appearance of the film and the publication of the newspaper “Rus Pravoslavnaya” became the basis for the criminal prosecution of Dushenov. In 2006, the newspaper's circulation was arrested, after which its publication ceased. On March 17, 2007, the Kulikovo Field studio was stormed by an armed special forces detachment and destroyed.

On October 22, 2007, the St. Petersburg prosecutor's office charged the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Rus Pravoslavnaya, Konstantin Dushenov, with committing actions “aimed at inciting hatred and enmity, as well as humiliating the dignity of a group of people based on nationality, origin, attitude to religion, committed in public.” and using the media organized by the group.” On February 3, 2010, Dushenov was found guilty under Art. 282 part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and was sentenced to three years of imprisonment to be served in a penal colony with a subsequent ban on engaging in publishing activities for three years.

Currently at large.

) - Russian far-right public figure, publicist, director of the Analytical Information Agency "Orthodox Rus'"; author of anti-Semitic books, articles and films.

Biography

Born in Leningrad in the family of a military man. Grandson of the first commander Northern Fleet Konstantin Ivanovich Dushenov. Graduated Higher Naval School of Diving named after Lenin Komsomol.

Since 1992 - member of the editorial board of the newspaper Rus Pravoslavnaya. Was a press secretary Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga Ioanna (Snycheva); The St. Petersburg diocese in 2009 denied the existence of such a position. Many consider Dushenov the author of some of the articles published under the name of Metropolitan John. Was the chairman Union of Orthodox Brotherhoods St. Petersburg.

Was number 12 on the electoral list Constitutional Democratic Party - People's Freedom Party(KDP-PNS) Mikhail Astafiev in the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation in the fall of 1993. The KDP-PNS did not collect the required number of signatures.

On April 2, 1995 he was elected a member of the National Council of the Social Patriotic Movement " Power » Alexandra Rutskogo. At the “Power” congress on August 26, 1995, he was approved in the federal part of the election list at No. 3.

Since 1996 - member of the Central Council of the VOPD " Spiritual Heritage » Alexey Podberezkin.

Since 1997, editor-in-chief of the newspaper " Orthodox Rus'" In May 1998, he became one of the founders of the information site “ Russian line”, which was originally an online version of “Orthodox Rus'”, but in 2000 he left this project due to disagreements with its founders.

In 2005, Dushenov gained fame by participating in the trial of the murder of State Duma deputy Galina Starovoytova, when he tried to provide an alibi for Yuri Kolchin, who was found guilty of organizing the murder of a parliamentarian.

In 2005, he became a member of the Main Council, restored on the initiative of Vyacheslava Klykova Union of the Russian People.

In January 2005, he published in the RP the so-called “ letter from 5,000 representatives of the Russian public“, who appealed to the Prosecutor General demanding the closure of “all religious and national Jewish associations as extremist.”

On March 11, 2005, the Russian Jewish Congress (RJC) demanded that the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation initiate criminal proceedings against those who signed the letter. Dushenov said in response that “he would be glad if the story with the letter became a loud open process” and that after the publication of the letter, FSB officers came to the editorial office several times “for confidential conversations.”

On October 22, 2007, the St. Petersburg prosecutor's office charged the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Rus Pravoslavnaya, Konstantin Dushenov, with committing actions “aimed at inciting hatred and enmity, as well as humiliating the dignity of a group of people based on nationality, origin, attitude to religion, committed in public.” and using the media, organized by a group,” that is, committing a crime under paragraph “c” of Part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. 21 December 2009 Prosecutors Remezov and Ashina at the court hearing demanded punishment for Dushenov in the form of imprisonment for four years in a general regime colony

On February 3, 2010, he was found guilty under Art. 282 part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and was sentenced to three years in prison to be served in a penal colony for the authorship and distribution of the film “Russia with a knife in the back. Jewish fascism and genocide of the Russian people" and for distributing the magazines "Orthodox Rus'". The court also deprived Dushenov of the right to engage in publishing activities for three years. The verdict was actively discussed in the St. Petersburg and federal press. According to Irina Levinskaya, who acted as an expert in court, the court noticed that Dushenov not only spread slander and hatred of Jews and adherents of Judaism, but also earned quite a lot of money from it. The experience of watching this movie in a maximum security colony is described in the book V. Pereverzina - « Hostage: The Story of a Yukos Manager":216-217.

Dushenov's lawyer Andrei Antonov from St. Petersburg said that Dushenov's sentence was unfounded, citing the historian's controversial book Shlomo Zanda « Who and how invented the Jewish people" He asserts that “...the accusations brought against Russian citizens of inciting hatred or enmity towards persons of Jewish nationality, as well as humiliation of their dignity, are absurd and unfounded, Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. After all, according to these conscientious studies, there is no Jewish people, a Jewish nation in the scientific and practical understanding of a people and a nation.”

On February 2, 2011, Dushenov was transferred from the settlement colony to a correctional colony. . September 28, 2012 Vsevolozhsky The city court decided to parole from Dushenov's custody, but the decision was challenged by the prosecutor's office.

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As he calls himself, a convinced anti-Semite in the highest and noblest meaning of this term: believes Talmudic Judaism an active enemy of Orthodoxy and the Russian people, constantly striving for the destruction of both throughout history. In the article “Warning in the genre of denunciation,” Dushenov, rejecting accusations of anti-Semitism from the outside Gleb Yakunina to Metropolitan John, writes: “We cannot resist the pleasure of quoting statements John Chrysostom: “The synagogue is a den of thieves and a den of wild beasts. they live there demons, and not only in this place, but also in the souls themselves Jews …“»

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“I’m glad with my soul that they came and that they stopped with me,” she said. “It’s high time,” she said, looking significantly at Natasha... “the old man is here and they are expecting their son any day now.” We must, we must meet him. Well, we’ll talk about that later,” she added, looking at Sonya with a look that showed that she didn’t want to talk about it in front of her. “Now listen,” she turned to the count, “what do you need tomorrow?” Who will you send for? Shinshina? – she bent one finger; - crybaby Anna Mikhailovna? - two. She's here with her son. My son is getting married! Then Bezukhova? And he's here with his wife. He ran away from her, and she ran after him. He dined with me on Wednesday. Well, as for them - she pointed to the young ladies - tomorrow I’ll take them to Iverskaya, and then we’ll go to Ober Shelme. After all, you will probably do everything new? Don't take it from me, these days it's sleeves, that's what! The other day, the young Princess Irina Vasilievna came to see me: I was afraid to look, as if she had put two barrels on her hands. After all, today the day is a new fashion. So what are you doing? – she turned sternly to the count.
“Everything suddenly came together,” answered the count. - To buy rags, and then there is a buyer for the Moscow region and for the house. If you're so kind, I'll find some time, go to Marinskoye for a day, and show you my girls.
- Okay, okay, I’ll be intact. It’s like in the Board of Trustees. “I’ll take them where they need to go, scold them, and caress them,” said Marya Dmitrievna, touching the cheek of her favorite and goddaughter Natasha with her big hand.
The next day, in the morning, Marya Dmitrievna took the young ladies to Iverskaya and to m me Ober Shalma, who was so afraid of Marya Dmitrievna that she always gave her outfits at a loss, just to get her out of her hands as quickly as possible. Marya Dmitrievna ordered almost the entire dowry. When she returned, she kicked everyone except Natasha out of the room and called her favorite to her chair.
- Well, now let's talk. Congratulations on your fiance. Got the guy! I'm happy for you; and I’ve known him since those years (she pointed to an arshin from the ground). – Natasha blushed joyfully. – I love him and his whole family. Now listen. You know, old Prince Nikolai really did not want his son to get married. Good old man! It is, of course, Prince Andrei is not a child, and he will manage without him, but it is not good to enter the family against his will. It must be peaceful, loving. You're smart, you can do it right. Treat yourself kindly and wisely. Everything will be fine.
Natasha was silent, as Marya Dmitrievna thought, out of shyness, but in essence Natasha was unpleasant that they were interfering in her love affair with Prince Andrei, which seemed to her so special from all human affairs that no one, according to her concepts, could understand it. She loved and knew one Prince Andrei, he loved her and was supposed to come one of these days and take her. She didn't need anything else.
“You see, I’ve known him for a long time, and I love Mashenka, your sister-in-law.” Sisters-in-law are beaters, but this one won’t hurt a fly. She asked me to set her up with you. Tomorrow you and your father will go to her, and give her a good hug: you are younger than her. Somehow yours will arrive, and you already know your sister and father, and they love you. Yes or no? Surely it will be better?
“Better,” Natasha answered reluctantly.

The next day, on the advice of Marya Dmitrievna, Count Ilya Andreich went with Natasha to Prince Nikolai Andreich. The count prepared for this visit with a gloomy spirit: in his heart he was afraid. The last meeting during the militia, when the count, in response to his invitation to dinner, listened to a heated reprimand for not delivering people, was memorable for Count Ilya Andreich. Natasha, dressed in her best dress, was on the contrary in the most cheerful mood. “It’s impossible that they wouldn’t love me,” she thought: everyone has always loved me. And I’m so ready to do for them whatever they want, I’m so ready to love him - because he’s a father, and her because she’s a sister, that there’s no reason why they wouldn’t love me!”
They drove up to an old, gloomy house on Vzdvizhenka and entered the hallway.
“Well, God bless,” said the count, half jokingly, half seriously; but Natasha noticed that her father was in a hurry, entering the hall, and timidly, quietly asked if the prince and princess were at home. After the report of their arrival, there was confusion among the prince's servants. The footman, who ran to report them, was stopped by another footman in the hall and they whispered about something. A girl, a maid, ran out into the hall and also hurriedly said something, mentioning the princess. Finally, one old footman with an angry look came out and reported to the Rostovs that the prince could not receive him, but the princess was asking to come to her. M lle Bourienne was the first to greet the guests. She especially politely met the father and daughter and took them to the princess. The princess, with an excited, frightened face covered with red spots, ran out, stepping heavily, towards the guests, and tried in vain to appear free and welcoming. Princess Marya did not like Natasha at first sight. She seemed too elegant, frivolously cheerful and vain to her. Princess Marya did not know that before she saw her future daughter-in-law, she was already ill-disposed towards her out of involuntary envy of her beauty, youth and happiness and out of jealousy of her brother’s love. In addition to this irresistible feeling of antipathy towards her, Princess Marya at that moment was also excited by the fact that at the report of the Rostovs’ arrival, the prince shouted that he did not need them, that he should let Princess Marya receive them if she wanted, and that they should not be allowed to see him . Princess Marya decided to receive the Rostovs, but every minute she was afraid that the prince would do some kind of trick, since he seemed very excited about the Rostovs’ arrival.
“Well, dear princess, I brought you my songbird,” said the count, shuffling and looking around restlessly, as if he was afraid that the old prince might come up. “I’m so glad that you met... It’s a pity, it’s a pity that the prince is still unwell,” and after saying a few more general phrases, he stood up. “If you would allow me, princess, to give you an idea of my Natasha for a quarter of an hour, I would go, just two steps away, to the Dog Playground, to see Anna Semyonovna, and pick her up.”
Ilya Andreich came up with this diplomatic trick in order to give his future sister-in-law space to explain himself to his daughter-in-law (as he said this after his daughter) and also in order to avoid the possibility of meeting with the prince, whom he was afraid of. He did not tell this to his daughter, but Natasha understood this fear and anxiety of her father and felt insulted. She blushed for her father, became even more angry for blushing, and looked at the princess with a bold, defiant look that said that she was not afraid of anyone. The princess told the count that she was very happy and only asked him to stay longer with Anna Semyonovna, and Ilya Andreich left.
M lle Bourienne, despite the restless glances thrown at her by Princess Marya, who wanted to talk with Natasha face to face, did not leave the room and firmly held the conversation about Moscow pleasures and theaters. Natasha was offended by the confusion that occurred in the hallway, by her father’s anxiety and by the unnatural tone of the princess, who, it seemed to her, was doing a favor by accepting her. And then everything was unpleasant for her. She didn't like Princess Marya. She seemed very bad-looking to her, feigned and dry. Natasha suddenly shrank morally and involuntarily adopted such a careless tone, which pushed Princess Marya away from her even more. After five minutes of heavy, pretend conversation, fast footsteps in shoes were heard approaching. Princess Marya's face expressed fear, the door of the room opened and the prince entered in a white cap and robe.
“Oh, madam,” he said, “madam, countess... Countess Rostova, if I’m not mistaken... I beg your pardon, excuse me... I didn’t know, madam.” God knows, I didn’t know that you honored us with your visit; you came to see your daughter in such a suit. I beg your pardon... God sees, I didn’t know,” he repeated so unnaturally, emphasizing the word God and so unpleasantly that Princess Marya stood with her eyes downcast, not daring to look at either her father or Natasha. Natasha, having stood up and sat down, also did not know what to do. One m lle Bourienne smiled pleasantly.
- I beg your pardon, I beg your pardon! “God knows, I didn’t know,” the old man muttered and, having examined Natasha from head to toe, he left. M lle Bourienne was the first to appear after this appearance and began a conversation about the prince’s ill health. Natasha and Princess Marya silently looked at each other, and the longer they silently looked at each other, without expressing what they needed to express, the more unkindly they thought about each other.
When the count returned, Natasha was discourteously delighted with him and hurried to leave: at that moment she almost hated this dry old princess, who could put her in such an awkward position and spend half an hour with her without saying anything about Prince Andrei. “After all, I couldn’t be the first to start talking about him in front of this French woman,” Natasha thought. Princess Marya, meanwhile, suffered from the same thing. She knew that she had to tell Natasha, but she could not do it both because M lle Bourienne interfered with her, and because she herself did not know why it was so difficult for her to start talking about this marriage. When the count was already leaving the room, Princess Marya quickly walked up to Natasha, took her hands and, sighing heavily, said: “Wait, I need...” Natasha looked at Princess Marya mockingly, not knowing why.
“Dear Natalie,” said Princess Marya, “know that I am glad that my brother has found happiness...” She stopped, feeling that she was telling a lie. Natasha noticed this stop and guessed the reason for it.
“I think, princess, that now it’s inconvenient to talk about this,” Natasha said with outward dignity and coldness and with tears that she felt in her throat.
“What did I say, what did I do!” she thought as soon as she left the room.
We waited a long time for Natasha for lunch that day. She sat in her room and sobbed like a child, blowing her nose and sobbing. Sonya stood over her and kissed her hair.
- Natasha, what are you talking about? - she said. -What do you care about them? Everything will pass, Natasha.
- No, if you knew how offensive it is... exactly me...
- Don’t talk, Natasha, it’s not your fault, so what does it matter to you? “Kiss me,” said Sonya.
Natasha raised her head, kissed her friend on the lips, and pressed her wet face to hers.
– I can’t say, I don’t know. “No one is to blame,” said Natasha, “I am to blame.” But all this is painfully terrible. Oh, he’s not coming!…
She went out to dinner with red eyes. Marya Dmitrievna, who knew how the prince received the Rostovs, pretended that she did not notice Natasha’s upset face and firmly and loudly joked at the table with the count and other guests.

That evening the Rostovs went to the opera, for which Marya Dmitrievna got a ticket.
Natasha did not want to go, but it was impossible to refuse Marya Dmitrievna’s affectionateness, exclusively intended for her. When she, dressed, went out into the hall, waiting for her father and looking in the large mirror, saw that she was good, very good, she became even more sad; but sad, sweet and loving.
“My God, if only he were here; Then I would not have the same way as before, with some stupid timidity in front of something, but in a new, simple way, I would hug him, cling to him, force him to look at me with those searching, curious eyes with which he so often looked at me and then would make him laugh, as he laughed then, and his eyes - how I see those eyes! thought Natasha. - And what do I care about his father and sister: I love him alone, him, him, with this face and eyes, with his smile, masculine and at the same time childish... No, it’s better not to think about him, not to think, to forget, completely forget for this time. I can’t stand this waiting, I’m going to start crying,” and she moved away from the mirror, making an effort not to cry. - “And how can Sonya love Nikolinka so smoothly, so calmly, and wait so long and patiently”! she thought, looking at Sonya entering, also dressed, with a fan in her hands.
“No, she’s completely different. I can't"!
Natasha felt at that moment so softened and tender that it was not enough for her to love and know that she was loved: she needed now, now she needed to hug her loved one and speak and hear from him the words of love with which her heart was full. While she was riding in the carriage, sitting next to her father, and thoughtfully looking at the lights of the lanterns flashing in the frozen window, she felt even more in love and sadder and forgot with whom and where she was going. Having fallen into a line of carriages, the Rostovs' carriage slowly squealed in the snow and drove up to the theater. Natasha and Sonya hastily jumped out, picking up dresses; The count came out, supported by footmen, and between the ladies and men entering and those selling posters, all three went into the corridor of the benoir. The sounds of music could already be heard from behind the closed doors.
“Nathalie, vos cheveux, [Natalie, your hair,” Sonya whispered. The steward politely and hastily slipped in front of the ladies and opened the door of the box. The music began to be heard brighter through the door, the illuminated rows of boxes with the bare shoulders and arms of the ladies, and the noisy stalls glittering with uniforms flashed. The lady who was entering the adjacent benoir looked at Natasha with a feminine, envious gaze. The curtain had not yet risen and the overture was playing. Natasha, straightening her dress, walked along with Sonya and sat down, looking around at the illuminated rows of opposite boxes. The feeling that she had not experienced for a long time that hundreds of eyes were looking at her bare arms and neck suddenly seized her both pleasantly and unpleasantly, evoking a whole swarm of memories, desires and worries corresponding to this feeling.
Two remarkably pretty girls, Natasha and Sonya, with Count Ilya Andreich, who had not been seen in Moscow for a long time, attracted everyone’s attention. In addition, everyone vaguely knew about Natasha’s conspiracy with Prince Andrei, they knew that since then the Rostovs had lived in the village, and they looked with curiosity at the bride of one of the best grooms in Russia.
Natasha became prettier in the village, as everyone told her, and that evening, thanks to her excited state, she was especially beautiful. She amazed with the fullness of life and beauty, combined with indifference to everything around her. Her black eyes looked at the crowd, not looking for anyone, and her thin, bare arm above the elbow, leaning on the velvet ramp, obviously unconsciously, in time with the overture, clenched and unclenched, crumpling the poster.
“Look, here’s Alenina,” said Sonya, “it seems like she’s with her mother!”
- Fathers! Mikhail Kirilych has grown even fatter,” said the old count.
- Look! Our Anna Mikhailovna is in a state of flux!
- Karagin, Julie and Boris are with them. The bride and groom are now visible. – Drubetskoy proposed!
“Why, I found out today,” said Shinshin, who was entering the Rostovs’ box.
Natasha looked in the direction in which her father was looking and saw Julie, who, with pearls on her thick red neck (Natasha knew, sprinkled with powder), was sitting with a happy look, next to her mother.