feel offended.
You seem to be convinced
that the very fact
ofyour existence close by
will make everybody happy.
You only know how to demand.
That's because I was brought up
by women.
Ifyou don't want lgnat
to become like that,
get married as soon as possible.
- Get married to whom?
- This I don't know.
Or give lgnat to me.
Why didn't you make it up with
your mother? It was your fault.
What fault?
She's convinced herself she knows
better than I how I should live.
That she can make me happy.
As far as mother is concerned,
I can feel it better than you.
What can you feel better?
That we're getting more and more
distant,
and I can't do anything
about it.
Natalya, try to distract him.
He's talking of Spain again.
It will end up in a scandal.
I wanted to ask you for a favor...
We're redecorating now.
Ignat wants to live with you
for a week.
I will be very happy.
What does he say?
He's showing the great matador
Palomo Linares.
Most of all he was excited
by the farewell he was given.
The whole town came to see him off.
People sang and danced.
His mother couldn't come,
she was sick.
And his father stood aside,
sad and silent.
He knew they were thinking
the same thing:
that they probably will never
see each other again.
Are you mocking at us or what?
We taught you and taught
and it was no use.
Now it turns out you can!
He went to Spain and didn't
understand anything.
Did you ever want
to go back to Spain?
I can't go, I've got a Russian
husband.
And Russian children.
I'll talk to her myself!
Ignat!
Come here. I'm leaving.
Always in a hurry...
Don't put it together, just give it
to me like that.
- Oh, I felt an electric shock.
- What shock?
As if it had already happened...
But I've never been here before.
Come on, give me the money
and stop dreaming.
Clean up a bit,
make the place tidy.
Don't touch anything here.
If Maria Nikolaevna comes
tell her to wait for me.
Come in. How are you?
May we have another cup
for the young man?
Take the notebook from the third
shelf in the bookcase, will you?
Read from the page that is marked
with a ribbon.
"To the question how sciences
and arts affect
people's morals, Rousseau answered:
Negatively'."
Read only what is underlined
with the red pencil.
"Notwithstanding the..."
Oh no!
"The division of churches
separated us from Europe.
We remained excluded
from every great event
that had shaken it.
However, we had our own,
special destiny.
Russia, with her immense territory,
had swallowed up the Mongol
invasion.
The Tartars didn't dare
crossing our western borders.
They retreated to their wilderness
and Christian civilization
had been saved.
To attain that goal
we had to lead
a special kind of life
which, while leaving us Christians,
had made us alien
to the Christian world.
As for our historic
insignificance,
I cannot agree with you on that.
Don't you find
anything significant at all
in today's situation in Russia
that would strike
a future historian?
Although I'm heartily attached
to our sovereign,
I'm not at all delighted with
everything I see around me.
As a man of letters,
I'm being annoyed, insulted,
but I swear that for nothing
in the world would have made me
change my home country
or have any other history
than the history of our forbears,
such as it was given us by God."
From Pushkin's letter to Chaadayev.
October 19, 1836.
Go, open up.
I'm afraid I've got the wrong
address.
Ignat, how are you doing?
Did Maria Nikolaevna come?
No. Though some woman came,
but she's got the wrong apartment.
Find something to do
or invite somebody.
Do you know any girls?
You mean from my class?
Oh no!
At your age I was already in love...
During the war...
With a redhead...
Her lips were always blistered.
Our military instructor was chasing
after her, he was shell-shocked.
Are you listening to me?
What did you fire at?
You think I didn't see it?
You were firing up!