Crossword-Solution: PETIA 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

You are sure to become a cheat, if you go on like that.” He had certainly forgotten how he felt when he was young! “What crime have I committed, I wonder? I wanted to go to the theatre, and having no money borrowed some from Petia Grouchetsky.

She would probably have helped him this time also out of his trouble, but she was in great anxiety: her younger child, Petia, a boy of two, had fallen ill.

Her son Petia, the regular type of a true Russian, not without charm and dark and good-looking, was at that time preparing at the Lycée to enter the regiment of the Chevaliers-Gardes in which he held a distinguished position before the war.

From time to time Petia, whom I always called “the dear little cousin,” used to take his sister Olga, who was often there, and me out in a little Canadian canoe, which certainly looked a most fragile craft; and one day, whilst contemplating the two birthday suits of nymphs who were bathing not far away--this being the custom it appears in summer time--I had visions which were almost realized of being upset into the water and having to save ourselves by hanging on to a bunch of bulrushes.

There in the depth of the Caucasus one did not notice the war as in the north of Russia; indeed, one would hardly have realized it except for the departure of Prince Petia Troubetzkoy and a few others, and the visits we paid to Madame Cheremetieff--the Dowager--whom we always found surrounded by cases for the Red Cross, which she painted white herself, adding a big red Cross.