Footnotes and Tangents

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Pyotr Nikolaevich Shinshin
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Pyotr Nikolaevich Shinshin

Countess Rostova's cousin

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Jan 05, 2024
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BOOK ONE

Book One, Part One

Chapter 15

Countess Rostova’s cousin, an old bachelor who dresses like a young man and mixes his Russian and French in the most peculiar way. He has a “sharp tongue” and likes to talk.

Chapter 16

Shinshin uses his “sharp tongue” to goad a colonel into a patriotic outburst. It’s all the same to this old man: generals have come and gone, wars won and lost. What matters, dear friend, is the conversation!

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