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To maintain such numbers of servants as were kept in our house would have been simply ruinous, if all provisions had to be bought at Moscow; but in those times of serfdom things were managed very simply. When winter came, father sat at his table and wrote the following: --
"To the manager of my estate, Nikóskoye, situated in the government of Kaluga, district of Meschóvsk, on the river Siréna, from the Prince Alexéi Petróvich Kropotkin, Colonel and Commander of various orders.