Word: melekhov
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Chiefly it is the story of the Melekhov family, and of its bravest son, Gregor. Even in his youth, Gregor "soberly and tranquilly" reflected: "I've lived and experienced everything in my day. I've loved women and girls, I've trodden the steppe, I've rejoiced in fatherhood, and I've killed men, have gone myself to face death, and delighted in the blue sky. What new thing can life show me? Nothing! And I can die! It won't be so terrible. I can play at war without risk...
Young Gregor Melekhov was a typical Don Cossack, hard-riding, hard-drinking, fiercely independent. Before he was old enough to serve his term in the army he was making free with another man's wife. His father thought marriage would cool him off, but his wife, after his mistress, was a disappointment to Gregor. He soon abandoned her and went off with the hot-blooded Aksinia to a nearby estate, where he got a job as coachman. When his term for military service fell due, he said goodbye to Aksinia with no misgivings. But Gregor was gone too long...
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