from ukraine, petersburger ignatiy nikitin from liteinaya street, gavrila ivanov from peterhof, vlas efimov from aranenbaum, as well as a number, a number of others. and what did the above-mentioned subjects do? and ordered to give it to his wife along with kvass, it did not help, in relation to the mother-in-law a slightly different procedure was proposed, i quote: to send through the servant to the mother -in-law charmed grass, to sprinkle that grass around the mother-in-law's house forever to forget about the old princess, well, it is true that the sent person was afraid of something and did not sprinkle the grass, in in general, it did not come to practical tests, another accomplice, vlas efimov, advised soltykov to wear a charmed herb in a shoe, and then put it in his wife's shoe. the effect was zero. the peasant alekseev ordered to wear a magic root and a piece of wax around the neck, again it did not work. but nastasya ostafieva, on the contrary, showed humanism and refused to conjure death. instead, she offered another option so that soltykov and his wife could live in love and advi