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# Skotinin: However much my neighbours have wronged me, whatever losses they have caused me, I have never petitioned against anyone; I make good any loss, rather than go chasing after it, by flaying my own peasants, and so the matter is buried and forgotten
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- Published: 2025-07-11T08:20:52.000Z
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- Author: Alexandr Radayev
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Prostakov: Quite true, brother: the whole neighbourhood says that you collect your quitrent like a master.

Mrs Prostakova: If only you would give us some lessons, dear brother; for we simply do not know how. Ever since we took away everything the peasants had, we cannot fleece anything out of them at all.

**Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin, “The Minor”**