1.The moujik at least may manage to learn something—in the drink-shop, or who knows where? —in prison, or in the barracks; but the baba —what can she know?
2.In short, he has the heart of a Russian. This fatalism of the Russian people, calmly heroic, is personified also in the poor moujik, Platon Karatayev, simple, pious, and resigned, with his kindly patient smile in suffering and in death.