13
Days and Thoughts
The mail arrived in Orsk with a supply transport in the latter half of the month. Everyone who was expecting a precious message from anywhere waited impatiently for it and, well in advance, prepared letters, parcels and money orders to be sent to all coiners of the vast Russian Empire.
Shevchenko was also anxiously waiting for the transport: he had to send Lazarevsky the address of Alexandriysky, a physician he had recently been introduced to at the Isaevs. Alexandriysky had immediately agreed to Shevchenko’s mail being sent to his home. Besides, Shevchenko asked Lazarevsky to tell Gern not to send any more messages to the Orsk commandant — so frightened was he by the unexpected consequences of Gern’s letter to Meshkov. And lest his letters from Orsk fall into the
