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"After the wedding there was not even a light snack; the newlyweds drank a glass, changed their clothes and went to the station. Instead of a cheerful wedding ball and dinner, instead of music and dancing - a trip on a pilgrimage two hundred miles away. Many approved of this, saying that Modest Alekseevich was already in rank and not young, and a noisy wedding might, perhaps, seem not quite decent; and it was boring to listen to music when a 52-year-old official marries a girl who had barely turned 18. They also said that Modest Alekseich, as a man of principles, had started this trip to the monastery, in fact, in order to make it clear to his young wife that in marriage, too, he gave first place to religion and morality." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Genre / Subgenre: Audiobooks / Russian classics Age restrictions: 12+ Features: Read by: Denis Nekrasov Total listening time: 35 min. IDDK, 2007