“The senior officers at us are all excellent people, but they keep themselves often away from the junior All the junior officers or outrageous boorish people, or good people, but suppressed by the damned lack of money.” Everyone sits in his corner and does not want to know others… ” A. Druzhinin his unhappy impressions of the officers of the Finnish Regiment.
Of course, there was communication between them – both friendly and friendly; The circles, or rather, the company, also gathered. There was a constant circle of friendship with Fedotov. Possessing an “accommodating” character, he was generally able to converge and get along with people. Naturally soft and calm, smooth and benevolent, he evoked sympathy and was good with everyone. “They joked for jokes,” recalled A. Druzhinin, “and the” artist Fedotov “with his guitar, bassoon, painting, poems, not always successful, and a tender heart, he himself served as a plentiful reason for friendly ridicule…”.
He was necessary, pleasing in every company, without obsequiousness and imposing himself. Life from the corps taught him the peculiar pride of the plebeian, forcing him to avoid those positions where he could be humiliated, taught the ability to get along, not contradict anyone and do not bully up, be informed, but not to the end, in reasonable measure, and in his communication nobody to be allowed inside, to remain at the level of the generally understood and generally accepted. He succeeded in this, and the developed habit was preserved for the rest of his life. Most likely, she aggravated his loneliness of later years and was burdensome, but he was already beyond her power.
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