Polinka Sachs. Tale (1847)

When Konstantin Alexandrovich Saks announced to his wife that he had to go to the provinces for three weeks, Polinka burst into tears and began to ask her husband to cancel the trip. She is sad, she is tormented by bad forebodings.

But Sachs is not just an official on special assignments, but a man of duty and honor. He must bring the case of the embezzler Pisarenko to the end. We are talking about hundreds of thousands of public money. The treasury is replenished from the peasant's pocket. And he, a thirty-two-year-old man, does not believe in the forebodings of his nineteen-year-old wife, a recent boarder.

Childishness and naivety, of course, are the charm of dearly beloved Polinka, but he still wants her to become more mature in her actions and thoughts.

While this conversation is going on, the servant reports that Prince Galitsky asks permission to see them both: he has letters for Konstantin Alexandrovich and Polina Alexandrovna.

This visit is very unpleasant for Sax, but his wife has already ordered to ask the prince to the living room. But Galitsky, about two years ago, wooed Polinka, but out of frivolity and arrogance he went abroad, to the waters, without talking either with the girl's parents or with herself. There the news of the marriage of the object of his passionate love reached him.

His feeling is strong, but selfish. Early success with women gave rise to apathy, which can only be overcome by an unusual, bizarre passion. He fell in love not with a woman, but with a child. Like Sachs, he is fascinated by the childishness, naivety and spontaneity of the graceful and petite Polina. That's just his appearance in their house is not an accident. The letters are just a pretext invented by his sister Annette Krasinskaya, Polina's friend from boarding school. She also suggested that a neighbor on the Zaleshina estate write to Saks and, taking advantage of the opportunity, send it with her brother, who would still carry her letter to Polinka. She tells her friend about her brother's despair, even about his illness after she married Sachs. This old, unsightly official is not worth Polinka. He is a terrible person. After all, he ended up in the Caucasus after a duel that ended in the death of the enemy.

Zaleshin is an old friend of Sachs, from the time of the Caucasian service. And in his letter he warns that Prince Galitsky is dangerous for his family happiness. The success of the prince with women is well known, he is young, rich, successful and handsome, he knows how to win over anyone.

Meanwhile, the danger is much more serious than Zaleshin writes. The prince managed to conspire with Pisarenko to detain Saks during the investigation until the moment when he writes and sends him a note with only the word "enough."

It takes time to win Polinka. The prince well understands that her ability to love has not yet fully developed in her, is not realized by her, and his goal is to focus this need for love on himself. He chose the tactics of frank confessions, violent outbursts of passion or despair.

Alas, after some time this brought success to him and suffering to Polinka, who was tormented by the consciousness of her sinfulness and criminality. Having learned about this, Sax wanted to take revenge on both of them, but how to take revenge on a child who himself does not understand what he has cooked up! Yes, it seems that the young people fell in love with each other, and this is a serious matter. No, Sachs will not add something new to the already existing humiliation. He will act differently than everyone else. For a month he hides his wife in a secluded dacha (Galitsky has completely lost his mind and hangs out under the windows of their St. Petersburg apartment), and then in the presence of both he announces that he is renouncing his rights, handing over the papers certifying this, but warns that, having married, Polinka and the prince must go abroad. However, he, who lost both his wife and daughter in Polinka at once, will closely monitor that his child does not become unhappy. At her first tear, he (the prince) is a lost man.

Young people are defeated by the greatness of the act of this extraordinary man and go to Italy. However, even there, Polinka often recalls the strange words of her first husband at the moment of parting, and they constantly crush her heart with some kind of heaviness.

Meanwhile, the shocks experienced marked the beginning of consumption. With illness, with the threat of death comes awareness of one’s own soul. It becomes clear that Polinka loves and has always loved Konstantin Sax, but she did not understand him, herself, or life. And I simply felt sorry for my current husband. Polinka finally understands all this when Sax appears in their house in the absence of the prince and asks her why she keeps getting sick, is there any grief she has? “Forgive me...” the poor woman whispers in response. Sax kisses her hand and leaves.

From that moment on, Polinka can no longer love the prince: he is not a man, he is a child, she is old for his love. This Saks is a man, a man: his soul is great and calm. She loves him. She wrote him a letter, which, after her death, the maid should send in his name. It will reveal to him that she appreciates him and his greatest sacrifice and repays him with infinite love.

Sachs, who had been following the prince and his wife for a whole year, after a visit to Polinka leaves for Russia and settles in the Zaleshina estate, where on one of the quiet summer evenings he is handed a letter from Italy from Princess P. A. Galitskaya.

Author of the retelling: G. G. Zhivotovsky

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