Sergei is caught by Katerina being intimate with Fiona. Katerina is mortified, but seeing Fiona's indifference to the whole situation, reaches something approaching cordiality with Fiona by writing her off. Sergei then pursues little Sonya, who will not sleep with him unless he gives her a pair of stockings. He then complains to Katerina about his ankle-cuffs. She, being happy that he is talking to her again, readily gives him her last pair of new stockings to ease his pain, which he then gives to Sonya in return for sexual favours. Chapter 15 Katerina sees Sonya wearing her stockings; she spits in Sergei's eyes, and shoves him. He promises revenge, and later breaks into her cell with another man, giving her fifty lashes with a rope, while her cell-mate Sonya giggles in the background. Katerina, broken, lets Fiona console her, and realizes that she is no better than Fiona, which is her breaking-point: after that she is emotionless. On the road in the prison convoy, Sergei and Sonya together mock Katerina. Sonya offers her stockings to her for sale. Sergei reminisces about both their courtship and their murders in the same airy manner. Fiona and an old man in the convoy, Gordyushka, defend Katerina, but to no avail. The convoy arrives at a river and boards a ferry, and Katerina, repeating some phrases similar to Sergei's feigned nostalgia for their life at the estate, sets upon Sonya; they both end up in the river after Katerina has seen the faces of Boris, Zinovy, and Fyodor in the water. The two women briefly resurface, still alive, but Katerina grabs Sonya, and they both drown. Translations into English A. E. Chamot (1922) George H. Hanna (1958) David McDuff (1988) Robert Chandler (2003) Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (2013) Adaptations Opera: the 1934 opera of the same name by Dmitri Shostakovich Ballet: Lady Macbeth '77 (Katarina Izmailova) by Yugoslav composer Rudolf Brucci Film: the 1962 Yugoslavian film Sibirska Ledi Magbet (Siberian Lady Macbeth) directed by Andrzej Wajda Film: the 1989 Soviet film Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Roman Balayan Film: the 2016 British film by William Oldroyd, Lady Macbeth. External links Full text of Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District in the original Russian Full Text of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in an English translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky Novellas by Nikolai Leskov 1865 Russian novels Adultery in novels