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Only at the very end of the letter there was a sincere note from Tyeglev’s heart. “Ah, Your Excellency,” he concluded his epistle, “I am an orphan, I had no one to love me as a child–and all held aloof from me … and I myself destroyed the only heart that gave itself to me!”

Semyon found in the pocket of Tyeglev’s great-coat a little album from which his master was never separated. But almost all the pages had been torn out; only one was left on which there was the following calculation:

Napoleon was born     Ilya Tyeglev was born
on August 15th, 1769.  on January 7th, 1811.
1769            1811
15              7
8*             1+
-----            -----
Total  1792        Total  1819

* August–the 8th month + January–the 1st month
of the year. of the year.

1 1
7 8
9 1
2 9
— —
Total 19! Total 19!

Napoleon died on May Ilya Tyeglev died on
5th, 1825. April 21st, 1834.

1825 1834
5 21
5* 7+
—– —–
Total 1835 Total 1862

* May–the 5th month + July–the 7th month
of the year. of the year.