The narrator and Piotr Karataev have met in a coaching inn. 
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<p>‘Have you had tea already?’ he inquired of me.
</p><p>‘Yes.’
</p><p>‘But won’t you have a little more for company.’
</p><p>I consented. The stout red samovar made its appearance for the fourth time on the table. I brought out a bottle of rum. I was not wrong in taking my new acquaintance for a country gentleman of small property. His name was Piotr Petrovitch Karataev.
</p><p>We got into conversation. In less than half-an-hour after his arrival, he was telling me his whole life with the most simple-hearted openness.
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</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0"><p style="font-size:smaller; line-height:1em; text-align:right; float:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;">—Ivan Turgenev. <i>Piotr Petrovich Karataev</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/t/turgenev/ivan/t93s/chapter18.html#chapter18">(translation by Constance Garnett)</a></cite></p>
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<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Pyotr_Sokolov_(painter)" class="extiw" title="w:en:Pyotr Sokolov (painter)"><span title="Russian painter (1821-1899)">Pyotr Petrovich Sokolov</span></a>
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1890s <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1890-00-00T00:00:00Z/8</div>
Scanned from: <cite class="book" style="font-style:normal">Пищулин Ю.П. (1988)      <i> Иван Сергеевич Тургенев. Жизнь. Искусство. Время</i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Moscow" class="extiw" title="w:en:Moscow"><span title="capital and most populous city of Russia">Moscow</span></a>:  Советская Россия, p. 151  <small></small></cite>