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Ivan Liustig was not like any one else. His friends of the Petersburg Circle were conscious of some lack of foundation beneath the graceful superstructure of his character. But they did not array themselves, as his critics, against him. They smiled at him, but they loved him.
Since he had escaped with me after the wrecking of the Tzar's train near Borki, he had returned to Russia, whither I had also gone with Bounakoff upon a secret quest.