Tatyana Repina

"Seven o’clock in the evening. The cathedral church. All the panikadila and candelabra are burning. The royal doors are open. Two choirs are singing: the bishop’s choir and the cathedral choir. The church is full of people. Cramped and stuffy. A wedding is taking place. Sabinin and Olenina are getting married. For the first, Kotelnikov and Officer Volgin are the ushers; for the second, her brother—an undergraduate—and a companion of the prosecutor. All the local intelligentsia is present. Luxurious outfits. The officiants: Father Ivan in a faded camilavka, Father Nikolai in a skufia, and the shaggy, very young Father Alexei in dark glasses; behind and a bit to the right of Father Ivan—an tall, thin deacon with a book. In the crowd, the local troupe, with Matveev in the lead…"