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Ivan Petrovich 's intimate friends and acquaintances underwent a heavy tribulation . He made haste to betake himself far away into the country , and there he shut himself up in his house . Another year passed and Ivan Petrovich suddenly broke down , became feeble , and utterly gave way . His health having deserted him , the freethinker began to go to church , and to order prayers to be said for him -LSB- B -RSB- ; the European began to steam himself in the Russian bath , to dine at two o'clock , to go to bed at nine , to be talked to sleep by the gossip of an old house-steward ; the statesman burnt all his plans and all his correspondence , trembled before the governor , and treated the _ Ispravnik _ -LSB- C -RSB- with uneasy civility ; the man of iron will whimpered and complained whenever he was troubled by a boil , or when his soup had got cold before he was served with it . Glafira again ruled supreme in the house ; again did inspectors , overseers -LSB- D -RSB- , and simple peasants begin to go up the back staircase to the rooms occupied by the `` old witch '' -- as she was called by the servants of the house . -LSB- Footnote A : Arising from the conspiracy of the `` Decembrists '' and their attempts at a revolution , on the occasion of the death of Alexander I. , and the accession of Nicholas to the throne . -RSB- -LSB- Footnote B : _ Molebni _ : prayers in which the name of the person who has paid for them is mentioned . -RSB-