recognizing him in the crowd, gave him one last sign with the head
which, a moment after, was shown to the people, bleeding and inanimate.

Peter Grineff became the husband of Marie Mironoff. Their descendents
still live, in the Province of Simbirsk, and in the hereditary manor
is still shown the autograph letter of the Empress Catherine II. It
is addressed to Andrew Grineff, and contains, with his son's
justification, a touching and beautiful eulogium of Marie, the
Captain's daughter.