Chronos world history. Periodicals on history
INTERNET RESOURCES ON HISTORY
1. THE WORLD HISTORY. ANCIENT WORLD HISTORY. ANTIQUITY
1.1. The World History
1.2. Ancient world. Antiquity
History of the Middle Ages
3. NEW AND CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
3.1 Modern times
3.2. Modern times
4. History of Russia
4.1. Ancient Rus'. Middle Ages. New time
4.2 Modern times
5. Top sites educational institutions DEDICATED TO HISTORY
1. World history. Ancient world history. Antiquity
1.1 World history
1. Archeology. RU
This is a historical project, the pages of which reflect all the significant problems of world history, covering all the main points of view on each problem. The most diverse author's opinions on almost all major historical events(be it a peasant uprising, a palace coup, a party congress, etc.) are collected and compiled into a coherent interconnected system. The main structure-forming element of CHRONOS was chronological tables and a system of indexes (biographical, subject, geographical, ethnographic, religious. Some tables are only on the history of the 20th century. The tables are provided with hyperlinks to other tables and other reference material, including a variety of dictionaries and maps. There are separate genealogical tables, electronic versions of articles on history
12. Central Asian historical server
The resource is dedicated to the history of the peoples of the Central Asian region: the Kyrgyz, Kipchaks, Khakass, etc. The site presents genealogical and tribal lists of the Kyrgyz and other nomadic groups, written monuments, and chronological tables on the history of this region. History of writing. Photo gallery. Forum: languages, origins of peoples, anthropology, culture, etc. The resource is addressed to those who are interested in the history, ethnography, archeology, genealogy of Central Asian peoples.
13. Gumilevica : hypotheses, theories, worldviews
The site involves not only studying the material, but also the possibility of on-line testing, articles, essays, bibliography, poetry, prose, works of classics, drawings in "mythological" style, book reviews (scientific and fiction), lyrics and articles on music.
2. Ancient art
The portal is filled with rare and very valuable treatises by ancient historians and engineers, as well as relevant articles by modern scientists on the history of military affairs of the pre-gunpowder era. To date X Legio is the most complete source on the Russian and Russian-language Internet on a wide range of military-technical topics and military-historical issues related to Ancient Greece and Rome, Byzantium, states medieval Europe. Here you can find text information and illustrations of ships, throwing weapons, siege weapons of antiquity. There is a terminological dictionary, which makes searching and using the site easier.. There is also a section “Primary Sources”, which contains texts, or more often fragments of texts, by ancient authors dedicated to famous sieges and military leaders. Among the authors are Appian, Polybius, Diodorus. The translation of the text of Flavius Vegetius has been fully exhibited" Summary military affairs". The site also organizes a forum for lovers of ancient military history and technology.
4. Ancient Egypt - Feather of Maat
The site is dedicated to the history of ancient powers, such as Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, Greece, Assyria, Persia, China, Rome, Maya, Phenicia, Japan, Ceylon, Aztecs, Palestine, Korea, Indochina. On the website you can find maps and diagrams, information about historical figures, military art, new theories, versions and hypotheses, chronology, abstracts and excursions.
6. Duat. Project Egyptomania.
P ortal dedicated to Ancient Egypt. On it you can find last news Egyptology and exclusive translations of articles, as well as information on Ancient Egypt. The portal is updated regularly. Website in English.
14. Egypt: History - Pharaonic Dynasties (English) ( Story - Dynasties pharaohs )
Information about Egyptian history from many sources. Used a large number of resources to reflect as best as possible the wide diversity historical facts and especially its early period. Website in English.
15. Sisyphos - a guide to Egyptological resources on the Internet
The Heidelberg University project allows you to search for Egyptological materials by topic, region, individual era and a number of other criteria. On this moment covers about 260 sources. The site is in German.
2. History of the Middle Ages
Eastern literature. Medieval historical sources of East and West
The site is a source base of medieval chronicles in Russian. Contains an extensive database of medieval historical sources from East and West, grouped alphabetically. There are catalogs on chronology, on documents, many maps, tables and other materials that facilitate the study of sources. There is an opportunity to chat on the forum, express your wishes about what book you would like to see posted on the site.
All about chivalry and the Middle Ages
All about the mysterious Mayan civilization, which was so highly developed that it still surprises the world. The site tries to unravel the riddles of Chichen Itza - the most famous of the ancient Mayan cities, and reveal the secret of the mysterious Mayan hieroglyphs. A list of books, journal articles, scientific and educational films and websites that were used in the preparation of materials on this site is provided.
4. Internet project "History of the Order of the Temple" (IPIOKH)
If you are interested in history Teutonic Order, military affairs or simply the history of the Middle Ages, then on this site you can find a lot of interesting and useful information. Battles of the Teutonic Order, cities and castles. Gallery, history books, etc.
7.Medieval life
Lots of interesting materials on military and political history the Middle Ages is presented on this site. Special interest represent the reference sections of this project.
Philosophical Library of the Middle Ages
This is a non-profit website dedicated to Scandinavian-Icelandic culture and history. Here you will find immortal works of Icelandic literature (both Russian translations and Old Norse texts), information about the Old Norse language, many articles, and much more.
14. " The Vikings "
The Complete History of the Vikings. Website in English.
3. New and recent history
3.1 Modern times
1. Anatomy of an army
Uniforms and insignia of the Russian Army from the 18th century, the German Wehrmacht 1935-45. and Bundeswehr, US Army Uniform 2002 Military ranks Russian army and navy and some other countries. Tactics Ground Forces Soviet Army (eighties). Corps of Engineers Russian army. Including their history with early XVII century. Field fortification Soviet army. The most diverse section in terms of material is “From military history, science, practice.” Here is the history of the Military Orders of Europe, and the history of the Second World War, and the Naval Charter of 1720 and much more.
2. Library vive-liberta
This is a site where you can get many interesting information about the USA of the 19th century, about those territories of North America that were called the Wild West, about indigenous people and settlers. Description of everyday life, living conditions. There is a chronology of events.
6. History of Britain
The site contains chronological tables of the monarchs of England, Wales and Scotland. historical documents and articles.
7. History and culture of England
England: history and culture. Biographies of all monarchs, dynasties, famous battles, cultural figures. English literature, prose and poetry, with the ability to download books.
8 . Napoleon Bonaparte
The site is dedicated to the life and work of such famous character stories like Napoleon IBonaparte. In addition to Napoleon you can find necessary information about the marshals of the French Empire, participants in military campaigns, especially the campaign of 1812.
9 . North America: nineteenth century
History website North America in the nineteenth century. Main events of the century. Biographical reference book and library of historical texts, articles and literature, articles on the history of Russian stay on the continent of North America, about civil war in USA. There is a selection of materials on Canadian history.
10. Seven Years' War
Wars, battles, maps, historical documents, biographies, uniforms of armies of the 2nd half of the 18th century.
11. Tsushima. Military - maritime history 1855 -1945
The site presents a detailed picture of wars and naval battles, providing visitors with the opportunity to freely use a variety of illustrative and factual information that is collected and constantly updated on the site. The Library section contains interesting materials about the history of shipbuilding.
12. World War I - Internet history of the First world war
The History of the First World War is presented, information on certain issues is described: the Brusilov breakthrough, the East Prussian operation of 1914. Archive of the First World War. Website in English.
Modern times
1. Great War (1939 - 1945)
Digital library. A selection of literature related to military history and the history of wars: primary sources, archival documents, memoirs, studies, prose, poetry, etc. (mainly about the period of World War II).
3. Second World War
History of the Second World War. The course of hostilities and military operations, an overview of weapons, uniforms and ammunition, awards. Chronology. Biographies of generals and military leaders. Documentation: maps, orders. There is a link to military resources on the network.
4. World War II: resource directory
The relatively new site is valuable because it contains numerous links to Internet resources on this issue.
6. History of border conflicts in the Asia-Pacific region
The site’s materials are devoted to the border conflict between the USSR and the People’s Republic of China in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which reached its maximum tension in March 1969 on the border section on the Ussuri River in the area of Damansky-Zhenbao Island. There is a separate section “History of Border Conflicts”, which contains materials on countries such as Vietnam, India, Japan, Burma, etc.
7. Cold War
The site's pages cover various issues of military history, starting around the 17th century and ending with the beginning of the 20th century. Descriptions of military operations, memoirs, and various types of research on military history are published. There are several author’s sections (dedicated to the Life Grenadier Erivan Regiment, Napoleon’s marshals, prisoners of war Great Army in Russia). Section about A.V. Suvorov is by far the most significant collection of materials about the commander on the Internet.
2. Anthology of Old Russian Literature
Lectures by Solovyov, Klyuchevsky, Kostomarovand other historians, as well as their biographies.B modern conditions people can not only love history, but also love historians. But before studying history, we must study the historians who created it.
19. Social studies. History of Russia. Educational and methodological kit for school
This information platform for teachers, methodologists and anyone interested in teaching Russian history and social studies.
20. National history
Unique photographs clearly tell about events in life Russian Empire, about its architectural ensembles of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many of which have not survived to this day. The project contains a selection of more than 2,000 photographs, organized into 37 sections.
22. Russian emperors
This is the very first and largest of the sites of the Russian People's Faith. Materials on history, culture, philosophy, literature, poetry, myths and tales, encyclopedic materials and current articles on modern Slavic paganism are presented. Options are being discussed further development and comparisons with other concepts and religions. Selected thematic links are provided, and there is a photo gallery of pagan holidays. This resource is needed by many modern world, is a storehouse of knowledge on the Russian Folk Faith, Slavic Paganism, Vedism.
31. FEB: Fundamental digital library: Russian language and folklore
The Internet project “Archive of Alexander N. Yakovlev” is dedicated to the life and work of an outstanding state, political and public figure, academician Russian Academy Sciences Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev (1923-2005).
The almanac contains the most significant documents on history Soviet Union and Russia of the 20th century, and above all those of them that were previously classified. Base data totals b over 7 thousand archival documents on the history of Russia of the 20th century.
2. Archives of Russia
The purpose of creating this electronic resource is a presentation of the history of Russia and the Soviet Union in the context archontology- a historical discipline that studies the history of positions in state, international, political, religious and other public structures. In number politicians, whose short biographies presented in "Rulers of Russia and the Soviet Union" includes mainly those who occupied government posts, equivalent modern concepts"head of state" and "head of government". Information is also provided on the structure of the top leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and its predecessors. Contains information about heads of state, government, communist party from 1917 to 2000 The materials of the CPSU congresses, the composition of the Politburo and the Organizing Bureau of the Central Committee in different years are also posted here.
10. Putsch. Chronicle of troubled days
A unique online project that combines various archival sources on the history of the past war.
The portal presents in in electronic format complete collections of periodicals: “Izvestia”, “Krasnaya Zvezda”, “Gazette of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR”. To the most important military information materials available on the portal is a complete set of daily Operational Headquarters reports Air Force RKKA (Workers' and Peasants' Red Army).Work on the portal is international character, joint work on the resource brought together dozens of specialists: archivists, historians, cartographers and film experts.
17. Afghan
Full electronic versions of historical sources on domestic and general history(from Hammurali’s laws to the Soviet Constitution), a large selection of links to similar texts (in Russian), databases, electronic images of some documents. There are materials on national and world history - texts of historical sources, databases, images of documents. There is also a collection of links to historical texts on the Internet in Russian.
3. Website of the Institute of Asian and African Countries at Moscow State University
Website of the Department of History of Ancient Greece and Rome, Faculty of History, St. Petersburg State University. There are translations of ancient authors, many publications, monographs, and historical studies. Very good selection links to Internet resources on history.
Website of the Faculty of History of Altai University
A bibliography is reflected, texts of sources, a number of books, some lecture courses and teaching aids are presented.
Electronic versions are separately highlighted teaching aids dedicated to some historical issues:: Athenian democracy, Stalinism, the English Revolution of 18, the First World War and Russian society and etc.
6. Periodicals in history
A special place on the Internet is occupied by the sites of periodicals - newspapers and magazines. Using these resources allows you not only to significantly reduce the cost of subscription to these publications, but also to turn to old and sometimes unique publications. In addition, some newspapers and magazines exist only in electronic form.
1. "Old Years"
Electronic version of the newspaper publishing house“First of September” is part of the Association of Pedagogical Publications “First of September”, existing on the Internet since 1997. Includes the following headings: Historian’s Workshop, Gordian Knot, Clio’s View, Our Chronicler, Dust of Ages, Bulletin of “History”, Forgotten plot, Domestic history, History Ancient world and others. Materials on various issues of history: scientific and popular science articles, interviews, news reviews, etc. Announcement and archive of publications for 1999 - 2003.
6. Historical almanac “Labyrinth of Times”
This is a popular science, historical and ethnographic almanac, published annually since 1996. It is a continuing publication with a spiritual and worldview orientation. The purpose of the almanac is to comprehensively cover the cultures of the indigenous population of North America, Indians and Eskimos, who were the first to populate this continent long before they came there. white man. Among its sections are “Ethnography and Anthropology”, “History” (with the publication of documents), “Mythology” (folklore), “News”, “Modernity”. The “History” section contains publications of documents mainly relating to the time of development of North America, XVII-XIX centuries. The “Mythology” section contains interesting materials from the folklore of various Indian tribes. The magazine is illustrated. Some issues are presented in electronic form, all have tables of contents. The site has its own forum.
12. Teaching history at school (Electronic application)
A military site that contains materials from military historical magazines, numerous collections of military symbols, articles, reviews and illustrations of military historical topics, information about military miniature and much more.
16. Siberian Zaimka"
http://www.zaimka.ru/
“Sibirskaya Zaimka” is a publicly accessible popular science resource, equally interesting to both ordinary readers and professional researchers of Siberian history. A large time period is covered, starting from Scythian times and ending with the 20th century. Professional scientific works covering the history of Siberia. Directory of web resources, dedicated to history and development of the Siberian region. There is an archive of publications from 1998 - 2004.
17. Scientific and educational magazine “Skepticism”
http://scepsis.ru/library/history/page1/
An independent scientific and educational magazine whose content is based on political journalism, analytical materials on education reform, relations between the state and the church, the protest movement and other relevant topics modern history. There is a library scientific literature on history, philosophy, sociology, religious studies, ethnography, etc., as well as a forum for discussions.
18. Middle Ages"
http://www.srednieveka.ru/
Academic periodical on the history of the Middle Ages and early modern times in Western Europe, With 2007 published quarterly. Currently, the journal publishes original research by domestic and foreign historians, devoted primarily to Western European history of the Middle Ages and early modern times, as well as articles related to adjacent regions or related disciplines.
Much attention is paid to translations of sources, historiographical reviews, and acquaintance with the life of the main scientific centers domestic medieval studies. Materials are regularly posted to help teachers of higher and high school, reviews of domestic and foreign publications, bibliography of works on history published in Russia Western Europe mid-IV - mid-XVII centuries. The site has a link to electronic version magazine http://www.sv.medium-aevum.info/ . There is an archive of numbers.
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Vasily Grigorievich Vasilievsky
Vasilievsky Vasily Grigorievich (21.I(2.II).1838 - 13(25).V.1899) - Russian historian. One of the most prominent representatives of the Russian bourgeois-noble Byzantine studies. Since 1876 - corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences, since 1890 - academician. The son of a village priest. He graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of St. Petersburg University (the first three courses - in 1856-1859 - at the Main Pedagogical Institute). In 1862 he was sent abroad, then taught history at the Vilna gymnasium. Since 1870, after defending his master's thesis (“ Political reform and social movement in Ancient Greece during the period of its decline,” 1869) taught a course on the history of the Middle Ages at St. Petersburg University, and then at the Higher Women’s Courses and other educational institutions in St. Petersburg. Vasilievsky was the first of the medievalists of the 19th century to begin to widely and fruitfully use Byzantine material to solve a number of complex issues of medieval history, especially the period crusades(“Byzantium and the Pechenegs (1048-1097)”, 1872; “From the history of Byzantium in the 12th century”, 1876-1877, etc.). Subtle observation and great critical instinct made it possible for Vasilievsky to read in sources what others had ignored, and in connection with this to come to conclusions that were in many ways different from the ideas about the beginning of the Crusades that were then dominant in European historiography. Even more significant were the results of Vasilievsky’s work in the field of studying Russian-Byzantine relations. His studies such as “Varangian-Russian and Varangian-English squads in Constantinople in the 11th and 12th centuries,” 1874-75, “Russian-Byzantine excerpts,” 1875-1878, “Russian-Byzantine studies,” 1893, forced him to abandon a number of traditional ideas about ancient period Russian history. They, in particular, provided material to refute the so-called Norman theory of the origin of the Russian state (although Vasilievsky himself took an inconsistent position on this issue). Vasilievsky was also one of the first researchers of Bulgarian-Byzantine relations (review of the essay F. I. Uspensky: "Education of the second Bulgarian kingdom", 1879; “Renewal of the Bulgarian Patriarchate under Tsar John Asen II in 1235,” 1885; "Advice and stories of a Byzantine boyar of the 11th century.", 1881). Vasilievsky undoubtedly has priority in the study of many the most difficult problems internal history Byzantium, especially associated with its agrarian system. He convincingly proved the significant spread of a free peasant community in the Byzantine village of the 8th-9th centuries and correctly connected this phenomenon with the colonization of the territory of the Balkan Peninsula by the Slavs in the 7th century (“Legislation of the Iconoclasts”, 1878; “On the synodal list of the Eclogues of the Emperors Leo and Constantine and on two lists Agricultural Law", 1879). Comparing agrarian relations in Byzantium with Western European and Russian ones, Vasilievsky revealed in a completely new way the meaning of such Byzantine institutions as pronia, charistic and others, essentially proving the feudal nature of the agrarian system Byzantium("Materials for the internal history of the Byzantine state", 1879-80). But the idealistic methodology (Vasilievsky is a positivist, a supporter of the theory of factors) and the political sympathies of the author (he belonged to the conservative wing of the Russian professors) led to the fact that he considered agrarian history in isolation from the class struggle. There is not even a mention of the uprising in his works Thomas the Slav, neither about the Paulician movement, nor about the peasant uprisings of the 10th-11th centuries. Ignoring class character state power, believing that “the power of the monarch is the common good of all,” Vasilievsky idealized the agrarian legislation of the emperors of the Macedonian dynasty, arguing that it was supposedly aimed at protecting the “lesser brethren” - small peasant landownership (1st article of “Materials for Internal History. .."). Vasilievsky, like all bourgeois historians, was far from the correct understanding of feudalism as a special socio-economic formation, reducing it to a certain set of purely legal categories. But in the analysis of the socio-legal side of the Byzantine agrarian system and many features tax system empire, his merits are undeniable. Much attention Vasilievsky devoted his research to Byzantine hagiography (the lives of saints); in the hagiographic monuments he discovered a lot of valuable information on culture and life, often complementing the short and dry news of the chronicles (Vasilievsky published, translated and commented on many texts: “One of the Greek collections of the Moscow Synodal Library (concluding the lives of Meletius of Miupol and Meletius the New)", 1886 ; “The Tale of Epiphanius and the Places in It,” 1886; “The Life of St. Stephen of Sourozh,” 1889; “The Life and Works of Simeon Metaphrastus,” 1880, etc.). Vasilievsky was the initiator of the creation of the Byzantine Temporary Book (1894) and one of its editors.
Z. V. Udaltsova. Moscow.
Soviet historical encyclopedia. In 16 volumes. - M.: Soviet Encyclopedia. 1973-1982. Volume 2. BAAL - WASHINGTON. 1962.
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Preamble
The CHRONOS library is not the most extensive of similar electronic collections, since initially I selected mainly texts that strictly corresponded to the concept of the project (as an addition to biographical materials, descriptions of events, etc.). Later, when replenishing the library, this principle had to be sacrificed, especially after several wonderful sites, famous for their collections of virtual books on historical topics, disappeared from the Internet without a trace. I still regret that I didn’t at least copy all the treasures that were there to a local disk. Just think, so much work was put into scanning and recognizing texts, proofreading them, formatting them in HTML code... And now they have sunk into oblivion. Where can I get them now?!
Now I try to copy in CHRONOS those digital books that may be of interest to the reader of the project, naturally, indicating the source of citation, as is customary to do when distributing information on the Internet. I myself have not scanned extensive texts for a long time (although well-wishers historians sometimes bring paper books and offer me to scan and post on the website), time and effort are spent on other types of work that more effectively improve the quality of CHRONOS - on replenishing the reference part of the project: Historical Encyclopedia CHRONOS, biographical index, descriptions of events, etc. Therefore, every reader who would like to join eternity, leave a mark in the global virtual space, has this opportunity: send the historical texts you have prepared, we will post them in CHRONOS (make a note in the subject line of the letter libris). Over the decade of the existence of CHRONOS, many of my co-authors have already prepared and sent a number of books of historical value. I believe that I express gratitude to them not only on my own behalf, but also on behalf of thousands of readers and visitors to the project.
Below I offer you a number of historical publications in electronic form (in a separate section there are works of art), as well as lists of recommended literature (mostly paper for now) on various periods of history (there is also one on pedagogy and teaching methods). Read, enjoy and restore the undermined last decade historical memory a people of which - I hope - you are a part.
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- Petrichenko M.B. Computer in genealogical research. - M.: ROIA, 2004. - 368 p. - ISBN 5-94414-072-0.
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- Does he love you? – Natasha repeated with a smile of regret about her friend’s lack of understanding. – You read the letter, did you see it?- But if he doesn't noble man?
– Is he!... an ignoble person? If only you knew! - Natasha said.
“If he is a noble man, then he must either declare his intention or stop seeing you; and if you don’t want to do this, then I will do it, I will write to him, I will tell dad,” Sonya said decisively.
- Yes, I can’t live without him! – Natasha screamed.
- Natasha, I don’t understand you. And what are you saying! Remember your father, Nicolas.
“I don’t need anyone, I don’t love anyone but him.” How dare you say that he is ignoble? Don't you know that I love him? – Natasha shouted. “Sonya, go away, I don’t want to quarrel with you, go away, for God’s sake go away: you see how I’m suffering,” Natasha shouted angrily in a restrained, irritated and desperate voice. Sonya burst into tears and ran out of the room.
Natasha went to the table and, without thinking for a minute, wrote that answer to Princess Marya, which she could not write the whole morning. In this letter, she briefly wrote to Princess Marya that all their misunderstandings were over, that, taking advantage of the generosity of Prince Andrei, who, when leaving, gave her freedom, she asks her to forget everything and forgive her if she is guilty before her, but that she cannot be his wife . It all seemed so easy, simple and clear to her at that moment.
On Friday the Rostovs were supposed to go to the village, and on Wednesday the count went with the buyer to his village near Moscow.
On the day of the count's departure, Sonya and Natasha were invited to a big dinner with the Karagins, and Marya Dmitrievna took them. At this dinner, Natasha again met with Anatole, and Sonya noticed that Natasha was saying something to him, wanting not to be heard, and throughout the dinner she was even more excited than before. When they returned home, Natasha was the first to begin with Sonya the explanation that her friend was waiting for.
“You, Sonya, said all sorts of stupid things about him,” Natasha began in a meek voice, the voice that children use when they want to be praised. - We explained it to him today.
- Well, what, what? Well, what did he say? Natasha, how glad I am that you are not angry with me. Tell me everything, the whole truth. What did he say?
Natasha thought about it.
- Oh Sonya, if only you knew him like I do! He said... He asked me about how I promised Bolkonsky. He was glad that it was up to me to refuse him.
Sonya sighed sadly.
“But you didn’t refuse Bolkonsky,” she said.
- Or maybe I refused! Maybe it's all over with Bolkonsky. Why do you think so badly of me?
- I don’t think anything, I just don’t understand it...
- Wait, Sonya, you will understand everything. You will see what kind of person he is. Don't think bad things about me or him.
– I don’t think anything bad about anyone: I love everyone and feel sorry for everyone. But what should I do?
Sonya did not give in to the gentle tone with which Natasha addressed her. The softer and more searching the expression on Natasha’s face was, the more serious and stern Sonya’s face was.
“Natasha,” she said, “you asked me not to talk to you, I didn’t, now you started it yourself.” Natasha, I don't believe him. Why this secret?
- Again, again! – Natasha interrupted.
– Natasha, I’m afraid for you.
- What to be afraid of?
“I’m afraid that you will destroy yourself,” Sonya said decisively, herself frightened by what she said.
Natasha's face again expressed anger.
“And I will destroy, I will destroy, I will destroy myself as quickly as possible.” None of your business. It will feel bad not for you, but for me. Leave me, leave me. I hate you.
- Natasha! – Sonya cried out in fear.
- I hate it, I hate it! And you are my enemy forever!
Natasha ran out of the room.
Natasha no longer spoke to Sonya and avoided her. With the same expression of excited surprise and criminality, she walked around the rooms, taking up first this or that activity and immediately abandoning them.
No matter how hard it was for Sonya, she kept an eye on her friend.
On the eve of the day on which the count was supposed to return, Sonya noticed that Natasha had been sitting all morning at the living room window, as if expecting something, and that she made some kind of sign to a passing military man, whom Sonya mistook for Anatole.
Sonya began to observe her friend even more carefully and noticed that Natasha was in a strange and unnatural state all the time during lunch and evening (she answered questions asked to her at random, started and did not finish sentences, laughed at everything).
After tea, Sonya saw a timid girl's maid waiting for her at Natasha's door. She let her through and, listening at the door, learned that a letter had been delivered again. And suddenly it became clear to Sonya that Natasha had some terrible plan for this evening. Sonya knocked on her door. Natasha didn't let her in.
“She'll run away with him! thought Sonya. She is capable of anything. Today there was something especially pitiful and determined in her face. She cried, saying goodbye to her uncle, Sonya recalled. Yes, it’s true, she’s running with him, but what should I do?” thought Sonya, now recalling those signs that clearly proved why Natasha had some terrible intention. “There is no count. What should I do, write to Kuragin, demanding an explanation from him? But who tells him to answer? Write to Pierre, as Prince Andrei asked, in case of an accident?... But maybe, in fact, she has already refused Bolkonsky (she sent a letter to Princess Marya yesterday). There’s no uncle!” It seemed terrible to Sonya to tell Marya Dmitrievna, who believed so much in Natasha. “But one way or another,” Sonya thought, standing in the dark corridor: now or never the time has come to prove that I remember the benefits of their family and love Nicolas. No, even if I don’t sleep for three nights, I won’t leave this corridor and forcefully let her in, and I won’t let shame fall on their family,” she thought.