“The parents went ahead. And Uncle Petya bravely undertook to take the children’s team: Grisha, Savva, Nadya and Katenka (eight, nine, eleven and twelve years old). We arrived safely from Paris to Toulon. A fellow passenger in the third-class compartment, a fat black man with gray tow on his head, was so sleepy that he kept trying to put his leg on Savva’s shoulder in his sleep, but Savva didn’t give up - he threw off the black leg five times and finally won... The black man slept with wide mouth agape; Grisha wanted to gag him with an aluminum egg for making tea, but Uncle Petya did not allow it and said that it was “uncivilized”..."