PART III VLADIMIR ON THE KLYAZMA (1838-1839)
Constance Garnett translation
Do not expect from me long accounts of my inner life of that period.... Terrible events, troubles of all sorts, are more easily put upon paper than quite bright and cloudless memories.... Can happiness be described?
Fill in for yourselves what is lacking, divine it with the heart—while I will tell of the external side, of the setting, only rarely, rarely touching by hint or by word, on its holy secrets.