Old Portraits Author:Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev To a certain extent the neighbours were right: Alexey Sergeitch had lived in his Suhodol for almost seventy years on end, and had had hardly anything whatever to do with the existing authorities, with the police or the law-courts. "Police-courts are for the robber, and discipline for the soldier," he used to say; "but I, thank God, am neither ro... more »bber nor soldier.« less