A couple of years ago, I did not even think that I would become an avid gardener, - Alexander pats the mane of the restless husky dog. - And then it dragged on - both the beds and the construction of the house.
START WITH FLOWERS
Alexander and his wife Elena, her sister and husband initially rented a plot. And then they bought it. The house is small but decent. The bath is roomy. But the most important thing is a plot of eight acres right on the banks of the Small Kremenkul. Came out of the bath - and immediately into the lake. True, the coast was overgrown with reeds. But removing them is a matter of time.
We want to organize a small beach of our own. Already made a backfill. Two dozen "KamAZ" soil was brought. Next year I will bring black soil. Then we'll take care of the landings. So far, I borrowed black soil from the neighbors. The wife immediately arranged a flower bed. She says, let it be small, but her own. I don't know about cucumbers and tomatoes. Onions, dill, parsley - this is exactly what we will plant. I do not plan to expand the house yet. Although, if all relatives come, 15 people gather here.
Garden "The Seagull", where Sazonov gardens, in the Soviet years became famous for having its own cinema, in the evenings they played popular films there. The townspeople even specially came to the "Seagull" for film screenings.
PERCH IN FOIL
Holidays for hockey players are short. A couple of summer months - and again training, tournaments, the championship. At the end of July, the first collections will begin. There will be no garden here. Therefore, Alexander tries to relax to the maximum.
With the elder, Nikita, the other day we went fishing. More precisely, I swam with a spear gun, and he was waiting for me on the shore. Perch shot two kilograms. Fried in foil in the evening. Yummy!
The perch caught in Maly Kremenkul weighs 2 kilos. Photo: Alexey MIKUSHIN
Among fishing trophies Nicholas - a pike under eight kilos. Hunting merits - ducks, hares, roe deer.
Alexander explained that he bought the garden to be closer to nature. There are a lot of fish in Maly Terenkul. Moreover, he goes hunting with his friends. I even bought a powerful jeep - Toyota Land Cruiser 100. Specially for off-road. Although, he says, he got stuck on it. The mud almost reached the glass. They pulled it out with two tractors.
What else is important in the garden? Neighbours. Ours are wonderful. Experienced, experienced. When I leave hockey, I will live here on the shore. Maybe I'll build another house. In the meantime, I'm already starting to prepare for the season. Cross-country running for four kilometers. I swim for half an hour. And yes, there is always work to be done. You get so busy in a day! Muscles are always in good shape.
DOSSIER "KP"
Alexander Sazonov. 33 years. Born in Omsk. Defender. From 2002 to 2011 he played in Traktor. Together with the team in 2006 he won the transitional tournament major league and returned to the super league. Was a captain. He continued his career at Neftekhimik, Vityaz, Avtomobilist. Now he plays for HC Rubin (Tyumen). During the hockey season, the whole family moves to Tyumen.
Raises two sons, 16-year-old Nikita and 9-year-old Artem. Nikita defends the goal of the MHL team "Tyumen Legion". Artem also played hockey, but went swimming. According to the wife of Alexander Elena, two hockey players are enough in the family, three is already too much.
Valentina Tinyakova Photo: Alexey MIKUSHIN
BY THE WAY
The legend of "The Seagulls"
Sazonov's neighbor in the garden, 77-year-old Valentina Larionovna Tinyakova, is a legendary person in The Seagull. She became famous for starring in the famous film "Spring on Zarechnaya Street." Filming took place in Zaporozhye, where Valya came to visit relatives. Valentina is a prominent girl, and she studied at GITIS. She got into the episodes where the handsome actor Vladimir Gulyaev walked along the flowering alleys of the park.
And in last years fame Larionovna brought her battle for Small Kremenkul. As the lake began to overflow, a woman at the annual “direct line” with Russian President Vladimir Putin asked: “Why are the gardens drowning, but the authorities are not really doing anything?” Then the governor of the region Petr Sumin received a direct order from the president, and the lake was drained a little by building a special diversion channel.
As a rule, hockey players moving from club to club are well known. They are introduced, biographies are published, interviews are taken. Those who have been on the team for more than one season are remembered much less often. It is assumed that everything is known about them. But is it? Let's say, who knows about, let's not be afraid of this word, the unique features of the career of Traktor defender Alexander Sazonov?
most dedicated
According to the results of the national championship in the 2001/2002 season, the Chelyabinsk "Tractor" dropped to 36th place in the all-Russian rating. He has never fallen so low! About joining the team reigning champions world, Stanley Cup winners, or at least winners of the national championship, the fans, perhaps, did not even dream of. The prospect of being a farm club seemed real. And "Tractor" began to climb up and after 4 years won the "gold" of the major league. Only five hockey players (all born in 1979-1981) went all the way from almost the very bottom to the elite: Vladimir Vorontsov, Alexei Zavarukhin, Alexander Sazonov, Igor Kamaev, Ivan Savin. The last two immediately left the club. Two more later. Now only Sazonov remains in the Chelyabinsk team.
Alexander, why did you choose a club from the bottom half of the Premier League table in 2002?
It was necessary to play somewhere, but in Chelyabinsk it was real. He was constantly a part of the squad, received a lot of match practice. And I liked the team - the team was good.
Have you come to the coach Nikolai Makarov, who is already familiar to you?
Yes, I played under his leadership at Mechel, which played in the Super League. But this lasted only about a month, while Omsk Avangard loaned me. A season earlier, I also played on loan in the Saratov Kristall. And he came to Traktor not as a renter.
Which season was the most difficult?
In Traktor, in my opinion, all seasons are difficult - there are no easy ones. All the time we have to catch up, catch up ... Maybe the only exception was the season when we entered the Super League. Then the team was good - almost all local pupils. But in the playoffs, I also had to "hack" with everyone. There were many who wanted to get upstairs, everyone “bited”.
And what championship was the most successful for you?
It is not clear which one: constantly ups and downs. Usually when it comes new coach, they let me play a little. Then you get into confidence and do not climb out of the platform.
Considering that in less than 9 years that you have been at Traktor, 9 mentors have changed ...
This is if we count those who led the team for a very short time. So there are six people.
Alexander, in the last championship you scored 7 goals. In the current tournament, you only recently abandoned the first one. What changed? Do you go out less in the majority?
It's not about the majority. It is necessary to throw and in equal compositions. Began to "tumble" at the beginning of the season. Somehow the game didn't work. Now, I seem to be gaining my former shape. Hope it gets better and better.
Last season, you had a lot of first passes through half the court, now we don’t see this in the team…
Then there were hockey players in Traktor who played together for two years, in training they practiced getting out of the zone for a long time. Now people have changed. Tried to do that, but it doesn't work. Maybe you need to devote more time, but there is almost no time for training.
Does it affect you that you are paired with a foreigner?
No, you get used to it. On the field, we understand each other without words.
What about words?
He knows a couple of words in Russian, I know a couple of words in English (smiles).
Club record holder
Since we are talking about legionnaires, it is worth noting that in the "Tractor" it is not easy for the pupils to "take root" hockey schools not the South Urals. A recent example: Skachkov, who grew up to the national team, was only enough for 4 seasons. Among those who “acclimatized” better than others in Traktor are Alexander Glazkov (8 seasons), Anatoly Olkov (10), Valery Belousov (11). The latter played 420 matches for the Chelyabinsk club. And the record holder for the number of games for Traktor, held by a hockey graduate of another region, is Sazonov, who is already on the verge of dozens of the main long-livers of the club.
Alexander, are you Omsk or Chelyabinsk now?
Chelyabinsk! I visit Omsk once a year and then for half a month. And his wife Elena is from Chelyabinsk, and children. I have two sons Nikita and Artem.
Their relationship to hockey?
The elder at first did not want to study, and when the desire arose, perhaps it was too late. I have little free time to help him, but if I give it somewhere, it will lag behind others. And 6-year-old Artem goes to the Polar Bears team. His wife takes him to classes, takes an active part in the life of the class. Whenever possible, I come to training. Sometimes I’ll tell you something - how without it? The son has not yet decided on the role. Now he wants to be a striker, then a defender, like dad. And also a goalkeeper.
How did you become a defender?
The first coach, Viktor Alexandrovich Zykov, put him in this position. I don’t regret this choice at all, although being a defender is a little more difficult - it gets to me all the time (smiles).
There is an opinion that the defense requires more smart game than in attack?
Just few of the defenders in early years experience comes. More often, formation occurs by the age of thirty - with experience, with game practice.
You watch the game of colleagues in the role on international tournaments, world championships?
Certainly! Somewhere you peep something - there is something to learn.
Have you been called to other clubs from Traktor?
He was not going to leave anywhere and was not even interested in the possibilities. I love this team! Until the end of my career I will stay in it, if, of course, I will be needed.
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How many hockey players from one farm club in 10 years can play in teams of masters at the highest level? The “useful way out” of those who in the 1999/2000 season played in the first league for Tractor-2, Salavat Yulaev-2, Magnitogorsk Metallurg-2, a decade later amounted to 4-5 people. Yaroslavl, Togliatti and "Tseskovsky" farms gave 12-13 hockey players. But from the Omsk "Avangard-VDV" sample-2000 now 15 people are involved in the KHL! This is not counting those who 10 years ago were sent from the "base" for a set of conditions. Sazonov also played in such a unique team under the leadership of Dmitry Bondarev.
From my year of birth, there was only me and even Kagaikin, who is now “lost”. The rest of the guys are born in 1981-1983. The main component of the current hockey players KHL- since those years. Moreover, many guys in 1981 and 1983 arrived in Omsk from Kazakhstan and became "avant-garde". And born in 1982 - local students of coach Viktor Starodubtsev (Svitov, Gutov, Baranov).
Where did you start?
In the Omsk SDUSHOR-22 at V. Zykov. I was taken to Avangard later. I know that Viktor Aleksandrovich is still working with children at Avangard.
His "Vanguard-97" smashes everyone in the region. And who invited you to the adult Avangard?
When they took me under main team, it was still led by Leonid Kiselev. Then came Vladimir Golubovich, and then Gennady Tsygurov. Under his leadership, I played a little before our meeting at Traktor. I was put in a pair with Igor Nikitin, who is now working as the Avangard coach.
You are lucky to have old game connections with the coaching staff!
With four - only one?
In the 2003/2004 season, in the Chelyabinsk Traktor, Sazonov played with Vladimir Krechin (now the director of the HK), Evgeny Tsybuk (now the club's general manager), Sergey Tertyshny (now one of the team's coaches). Gusmanov was also on the team - though not Ravil, but his brother. But Alexander Sazonov also played with the current assistant of V. Belousov when he returned from Magnitogorsk to his native club. Was there still a current hockey player who previously went on the ice with the four current club leaders?
Are there players whom partners refer to as "you"?
No. Except for veterans. We call Nikolishin "Vasilyich". He is not offended by Andrey either. Sometimes you turn: "Old man, old man."
Are there trainers that are too soft?
No. Coaches are not soft people. These do not exist and should not exist. Anyone will be strict and demanding, because he wants to achieve what he considers proven. And the team adapts to these requirements.
Gennady Tsygurov - too tough?
(pause) I don't know. Maybe when you first start working with him, you think he's tough. But you get used to it, you get used to it - and everything is fine.
Under Valery Belousov has changed a lot training process?
It depends on what you compare it to… The emphasis is on keeping the puck in the opponent’s zone, loading the defenders, attacking, attacking…
Hobby by horoscope
What makes Sazonov unique in the team is his passion, which is now shared only by administrator Denis Denisov in Traktor. It's about about fishing and hunting, to which young Alexander was addicted in Omsk by his father.
I have such a hobby ... But now there is little time left for it: home - work, work - home. Came only at the opening of spring hunting.
In hockey, you have "gold" for victory in the major leagues and for first place at the 2005 World Universiade. And what are the trophies in fishing? Just don't spread your arms too much...
Okay. I’ll be like in a joke: the fisherman’s hands were tied, and he showed with them: this is the eye of a fish. In the north of the Omsk region, on Lake Linevoye, I caught a pike weighing 7.5 kg. There were bigger pike perches (10 kilograms), but there was nothing to weigh them on. With nets I caught pike perch the size of me - on Lake Chany in the Novosibirsk region.
Do you fish in the Chelyabinsk region?
Yes, here in almost every lake, wherever you poke your finger, there is a fish. The water is clean, you can relax: Uvildy, Argazi, Kasargi (although it is closed now)
What is among your hunting trophies?
Goats, bunnies, ducks... I'm not chasing quantity. First of all, you need to engage in hunting, not poaching: beat exactly as much as you can eat (smiles).
And in Africa on a safari does not pull?
No. Drive far...
How not to remember that Alexander was born on November 29. And according to the horoscope is Sagittarius. Maybe, as a fisherman, he will be lucky with the team under the constellation of Pisces when the playoffs start?
Igor Zolotarev, Sergey Chernyshev. Football-Hockey of the Southern Urals
Russian defender Alexander Sazonov was born on November 29, 1980 in Omsk. At the request of his father, from the age of 6 he began to actively engage in hockey, starting his career path from the children's school of the local Avangard. The boy's coaches saw the talent in the young talent and helped him take the first steps towards a successful career.
First adult steps
After completing the training, a talented defender was waiting for two years of loan to the clubs of the second division, but in the 1999/2000 championship, the Avangard leadership decided to try Sazonov in the main team, declaring him for the season. In the Super League, the young Omsk player adapted quite quickly and easily - he was often trusted by the Eagles' mentor Gennady Tsygurov, as a result of which the hockey player went out on the ice quite regularly, playing in a total of 12 matches of the regular championship. But Sazonov clearly did not have enough experience in defense, and the defender spent the next two seasons in three various clubs division below - after the Saratov "Crystal" was followed by the Chelyabinsk "Mechel" and the Kurgan "Mostovik", where the hockey player regularly received playing practice.
Chelyabinsk fairy tale
Alexander Sazonov, whose biography is primarily associated with the Chelyabinsk Traktor, ended up in his main team in his career in 2002. At that time, the “bears” played in the Premier League of the championship of Russia, and the arrival of a young and very ambitious defender came in their favor. In the very first season Alexander Sazonov proved himself to the head coach, having played his first 30 matches for Traktor, and every year he added to his game, increasing not only the amount of playing time, but also his performance.
As a result, after 4 seasons, the Chelyabinsk team was able to break into the Super League of the Russian Championship, becoming the champion of the Major League in 2006, when Sazonov, who scored 13 scoring points. These 4 years have become an excellent springboard for Alexander in his career, and despite a lot of offers to move to another club, he stayed at Traktor.
For more high level at first, it was not easy for the Chelyabinsk team, and places in the second ten of the championship for 4 years in a row were a regularity for the team. In 2011, Traktor took up the renewal of the squad, and in May of the same year, Alexander Sazonov decided to change the club, moving to Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk at the end of the current season.
Life after "Tractor"
The next championship was marked by another club for the defender - having played 13 matches for "Neftekhimik", Alexander Sazonov moved to Podolsky "Vityaz". As part of the “bogatyrs”, the Russian also spent only one season, the next year, playing in Avtomobilist, and in 2013, accepting an offer VHL teams- Tyumen "Rubin". As part of the new club, Alexander was one of the main stars of the team's defense and made a significant contribution to the Rubin game, becoming the bronze medalist of the championship at the end of the 2013/2014 season. After the end of the contract with the Tyumen club, Alexander Sazonov was in search of a new club for some time, considering the KHL in the first place, but, having not found worthy offers, ended his career, leaving a significant mark on Russian hockey, including in the clubs for which he played .
Alexander Sazonov, one of Traktor's old-timers, is no longer black and white. After nine such different seasons in Chelyabinsk, the 30-year-old defender moves to Neftekhimik. Saying goodbye, the site says “Thank you” to Sasha and recalls his career at Traktor.
Alexander Sazonov, a pupil of the Omsk Avangard, ended up in Chelyabinsk back in the 2001/2002 season, when he played 6 matches in the Super League for Mechel. Then in a career young hockey player was a business trip to the Kurgan "Mostovik". And in the 2002/2003 season, Sazonov moved to Tractor. Then, of course, he did not imagine that he would spend nine years here.
Season 2005/2006. The last one before returning to the elite. The game against the Kurgan Zauralye
Sasha caught, perhaps, the most dashing time in the history of the club. Mid-zero is something. He went through all these crazy moments with Tractor - a scandal in the memorable Bagira nightclub, hysteria about a possible merger with Mechel, games against clubs that came to matches in Chelyabinsk with two and a half fives. Played in matches against Novouralsk Kedr, Seversk Yantar and Prokopyevsk Shakhtar. The main joke of that time was this: “Who is Traktor playing today? - With "South Ural". - With a hotel?
Then, it seems, everyone was interested in only one question - Carroll's: "How deep is this rabbit hole?"
At the ceremony of awarding the team with gold medals of the Major League together with Alexei Zavarukhin, Mikhail Emelyanov and Ivan Savin.
In Sazonov's first season in Chelyabinsk, Traktor took - even now it's scary to remember this - eighth place in the eastern zone of the Major League! Fortunately, already next year the rise began and Traktor reached the semi-finals of the playoffs, where they lost the series to Molot (1-3). In the 2004/2005 season, black and white, who were considered one of the favorites in the race for two tickets to the Super League (yes, then the teams were still flying out and entering), lost Nizhny Novgorod in the quarterfinals. And finally, in the 2005/2006 season, Traktor returned. Sazonov went with the club all this difficult way.
Lean, selfless, with a high pain threshold and never, even with the most complex injuries, did not complain about anything. A real man is not without reason the most favourite hobby Sasha on the "citizen" - hunting. Reliable and, if necessary, fought. Like, for example, here:
And of course, not a fan of interviews, however, who nevertheless agreed with the need to say a few words from time to time in live during the break of the match.
Preparing for the first season with Andrey Nazarov. Gorgeous photo. Who is not here!
The player, whose connection with Oleg Piganovich was kindly called by some fans "Three axes": Sazonov played under the number "7", Piga - under "77". In honor of the classic Soviet port wine. Others invented the chic in terms of the music of the language concept of the “Sazon Zone”.
The defender, together with the forward Lesha Zavarukhin, left the “Major League” combination in the history of the club. The first gave a chic pass to the opponent's blue line, the second opened, went one on one and scored. This topic, despite its obvious old schoolness, from time to time surprised the most sophisticated opponents already in the KHL.
For nine seasons at Traktor, Sazonov played 440 matches in which he scored 92 (32+60) points. In 2006, he helped the club return to the Super League, in 2007 - to maintain a place in the elite Russian hockey, and in 2008 - for the first time in ten years to reach the playoffs of the Super League. He was the captain and assistant captain of the team. In 2005, Sazonov, who, together with his teammates, formed the basis of the Russian student team, won the "gold" of the World Universiade.
In Chelyabinsk, Sasha met his wife, his sons were born here.
Unfortunately, his story in "Tractor" is over.
Now the main old-timer of Traktor is Andrey Popov. Behind him - six seasons in his native club (plus two in black and white farm). He is only 22.
BONUS
Fight between Alexander Sazonov and Denis Sergeev
didn't get out
Alexander Gennadievich Sazonov(November 29, Omsk, RSFSR, USSR) - Russian hockey player, defender.
Career
From the age of 6 he studied at the Omsk Avangard children's school.
After many years of wandering Russian teams finally ended up in 2002 in the Chelyabinsk "Tractor". In 2006, he helped Chelyabinsk residents get a ticket to the Super League. For some time he acted as the captain of the team and assistant captain.
He currently plays for HC Rubin.
Family
Alexander is married. He has 2 sons.
Statistics of appearances for clubs in Russia
Last updated: October 3, 2012| regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Command | League | Games | G | P | points | Str | Games | G | P | points | Str |
| 1999/00 | Vanguard | Czech Republic | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| 2000/01 | Crystal Saratov | Czech Republic | 44 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 46 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 2000/01 | Crystal Saratov | Czech Republic | 11 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 2001/02 | Mechel Chelyabinsk | Czech Republic | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 2001/02 | Mostovik Kurgan | Czech Republic | 18 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 2002/03 | Tractor | VL | 31 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 55 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 2003/04 | Tractor | VL | 52 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 66 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 18 |
| 2004/05 | Tractor | VL | 44 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 28 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 2005/06 | Tractor | VL | 42 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 44 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 39 |
| 2006/07 | Tractor | SL | 54 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 94 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 2007/08 | Tractor | SL | 56 | 4 | 17 | 21 | 42 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 2008/09 | Tractor | KHL | 55 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 64 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 2009/10 | Tractor | KHL | 53 | 7 | 14 | 21 | 79 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 2010/11 | Tractor | KHL | 53 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 30 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 2011/12 | petrochemist | KHL | 13 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 15 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 2011/12 | Knight | KHL | 31 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 88 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 2012/13 | Motorist | KHL | 45 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 18 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 2013/14 | Ruby | VHL | 33 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 12 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Total | 584 | 40 | 83 | 123 | 787 | 45 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 100 | ||
Achievements
- - Champion of the XXII Winter Universiade in Austria.
- - Champion of the Major League season 2005/06.
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Notes
Links
- (Russian) - profile on the official website of the KHL
- - statistics in English
- - statistics in English
- in Komsomolskaya Pravda
An excerpt characterizing Sazonov, Alexander Gennadievich
- Well, voyons, [listen,] calm down; I know your beautiful heart.No, I have a bad heart.
“I know your heart,” the prince repeated, “I appreciate your friendship and would like you to have the same opinion about me.” Calm down and parlons raison, [let's talk plainly,] while there is time - maybe a day, maybe an hour; tell me everything you know about the will, and, most importantly, where it is: you must know. We'll take it now and show it to the count. He probably forgot about him already and wants to destroy him. You understand that my one desire is to sacredly fulfill his will; I then just came here. I'm only here to help him and you.
“Now I understand everything. I know whose intrigues it is. I know, - said the princess.
“That is not the point, my soul.
- This is your protegee, [favorite,] your dear Princess Drubetskaya, Anna Mikhailovna, whom I would not want to have a maid, this vile, vile woman.
– Ne perdons point de temps. [Let's not waste time.]
- Oh, don't talk! Last winter she rubbed herself in here and said such nasty things, such nasty things to the count about all of us, especially Sophie - I can’t repeat it - that the count became ill and did not want to see us for two weeks. At this time, I know that he wrote this nasty, vile paper; but I thought this paper meant nothing.
– Nous y voila, [That's the point.] Why didn't you tell me before?
“In the mosaic briefcase he keeps under his pillow. Now I know,” said the princess, without answering. “Yes, if there is a sin for me, a big sin, then it is hatred for this bastard,” the princess almost shouted, completely changed. “And why is she rubbing herself here?” But I will tell her everything, everything. The time will come!
While such conversations were taking place in the waiting room and in the princess's rooms, the carriage with Pierre (who was sent for) and Anna Mikhailovna (who found it necessary to go with him) drove into the courtyard of Count Bezukhoy. When the wheels of the carriage sounded softly on the straw laid under the windows, Anna Mikhailovna, turning to her companion with consoling words, convinced herself that he was sleeping in the corner of the carriage, and woke him up. Waking up, Pierre got out of the carriage after Anna Mikhailovna, and then only thought of that meeting with his dying father that awaited him. He noticed that they did not drive up to the front, but to the back entrance. While he was getting off the footboard, two men in bourgeois clothes hurriedly ran away from the entrance into the shadow of the wall. Pausing, Pierre saw in the shadow of the house on both sides several more of the same people. But neither Anna Mikhailovna, nor the footman, nor the coachman, who could not but see these people, paid no attention to them. Therefore, this is so necessary, Pierre decided with himself, and followed Anna Mikhailovna. Anna Mikhailovna walked with hasty steps up the dimly lit narrow stone stairs, calling Pierre, who was lagging behind her, who, although he did not understand why he had to go to the count at all, and still less why he had to go along the back stairs, but , judging by the confidence and haste of Anna Mikhailovna, he decided to himself that this was necessary. Halfway down the stairs they were almost knocked down by some people with buckets, who, clattering with their boots, ran towards them. These people pressed against the wall to let Pierre and Anna Mikhailovna through, and did not show the slightest surprise at the sight of them.
- Are there half princesses here? Anna Mikhailovna asked one of them...
“Here,” the footman answered in a bold, loud voice, as if everything was already possible now, “the door is on the left, mother.”
“Perhaps the count did not call me,” said Pierre, while he went out onto the platform, “I would have gone to my place.
Anna Mikhailovna stopped to catch up with Pierre.
Ah, mon ami! - she said with the same gesture as in the morning with her son, touching his hand: - croyez, que je souffre autant, que vous, mais soyez homme. [Believe me, I suffer no less than you, but be a man.]
- Right, I'll go? asked Pierre, looking affectionately through his spectacles at Anna Mikhailovna.
- Ah, mon ami, oubliez les torts qu "on a pu avoir envers vous, pensez que c" est votre pere ... peut etre al "agonie." She sighed. - Je vous ai tout de suite aime comme mon fils. Fiez vous a moi, Pierre. Je n "oublirai pas vos interets. [Forget, my friend, what was wrong against you. Remember that this is your father... Maybe in agony. I immediately fell in love with you like a son. Trust me, Pierre. I will not forget your interests.]
Pierre did not understand; again it seemed to him still more strongly that all this must be so, and he obediently followed Anna Mikhaylovna, who had already opened the door.
The door opened into the back entrance. In the corner sat an old servant of the princesses and knitted a stocking. Pierre had never been in this half, did not even imagine the existence of such chambers. Anna Mikhailovna asked the girl who was ahead of them, with a decanter on a tray, (calling her sweetheart and dove) about the health of the princesses and dragged Pierre further along the stone corridor. From the corridor, the first door to the left led to the living rooms of the princesses. The maid, with a decanter, in a hurry (as everything was done in a hurry at that moment in this house) did not close the door, and Pierre and Anna Mikhailovna, passing by, involuntarily looked into the room where, talking, the elder princess and Prince Vasily. Seeing the passersby, Prince Vasily made an impatient movement and leaned back; the princess jumped up and with a desperate gesture slammed the door with all her might, shutting it.