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title: "Demons · Бесы"
author: "Fyodor Dostoevsky"
translator: "Constance Garnett"
title_ru: "Бесы"
author_ru: "Фёдор Достоевский"
languages: [ru, en]
shelf: "Literature"
section: 1 of 92
url: https://scriptura.si/works/dostoevsky-demons/1/
cite: "Fyodor Dostoevsky, tr. Constance Garnett, Demons · Бесы, section 1. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/dostoevsky-demons/1/"
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# Demons · Бесы

*Fyodor Dostoevsky, tr. Constance Garnett*

Russian: Бесы, Фёдор Достоевский

A provincial town, a circle of conspirators and the ideas that possess them: Dostoevsky’s novel in Russian, English and French.

## 1. Epigraphs · Эпиграфы

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/dostoevsky-demons/1/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/dostoevsky-demons/1/#p-N

[¶0] "Strike me dead, the track has vanished, Well, what now? We've lost the way, Demons have bewitched our horses, Led us in the wilds astray.

> Russian: Хоть убей, следа не видно, Сбились мы, что делать нам? В поле бес нас водит, видно, Да кружит по сторонам.

[¶1] "What a number! Whither drift they? What's the mournful dirge they sing? Do they hail a witch's marriage Or a goblin's burying?" A. Pushkin.

> Russian: .................................. Сколько их, куда их гонят, Что так жалобно поют? Домового ли хоронят, Ведьму ль замуж выдают?

[¶2] "And there was one herd of many swine feeding on this mountain; and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them. "Then went the devils out of the man and entered into the swine; and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake and were choked. "When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country. "Then they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus and found the man, out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid."

> Russian: Тут на горе паслось большое стадо свиней, и они просили Его, чтобы позволил им войти в них. Он позволил им. Бесы, вышедши из человека, вошли в свиней; и бросилось стадо с крутизны в озеро и потонуло. Пастухи, увидя случившееся, побежали и рассказали в городе и по деревням. И вышли _жители_ смотреть случившееся и, пришедши к Иисусу, нашли человека, из которого вышли бесы, сидящего у ног Иисусовых, одетого и в здравом уме, и ужаснулись. Видевшие же рассказали им, как исцелился бесновавшийся.

[¶3] Luke, ch. viii. 32-37.

> Russian: Евангелие от Луки Глава VIII, 32 — 6