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mingled fact and fancy. The facts are borrowed from the Russian
author, Petjerski; the fancy is our own. Our task will chiefly be
to soften the outlines of incidents almost too sharp and rugged for
literary use, to supply them with the necessary coloring and
sentiment, and to give a coherent and proportioned shape to the
irregular fragments of an old chronicle. We know something, from
other sources, of the customs described, some-hing of the character
of the people from personal observation, and may therefore the more
freely take such liberties as we choose with the rude, vigorous
sketches of the Russian original. One who happens to have read the
work of Villebois can easily comprehend the existence of a state of
society, on the banks of the Volga, a hundred years ago, which is
now impossible, and will soon become incredible. What is strangest
in our narrative has been declared to be true.
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