It's hard for Katerina Petrovna to live out the remaining days alone. Does Maniuschka, the daughter of a collective shoemaker, or the watchman Tikhon, sometimes come running down on the farm? "One day at the end of October, at night someone knocked on the gate for a long time. Katerina Petrovna went out to see, but there was no one there. That very night she wrote a letter to her daughter asking t...