What did Makar Semyonich tell Aksionov when he
came to see him at night?
Answers
"God Sees the Truth, But Waits" (Russian: "Бог правду видит, да не скоро скажет", "Bog pravdu vidit da ne skoro skazhet") is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy first published in 1872.
The story, about a man sent to prison for a murder he didn't commit, takes the form of a parable of forgiveness.
English translations were also published under titles "The Confessed Crime", "Exiled to Siberia", and "The Long Exile".
The concept of the story of a man wrongfully accused of murder and banished to Siberia also appears in one of Tolstoy's previous works, War and Peace, during a philosophical discussion between two characters who relate the story and argue how the protagonist of their story deals with injustice and fate.
What did Makar Semyonich tell Aksionov when he came to see him at night?
When Makar Semyonich came to see him at night he tell that "Forgive me! For the love of God, forgive me! I will confess that it was I who killed the merchant, and you will be released and can go to your home. When they flogged me with knot, it was not so hard to bear as it is to see you now...yet you had pity on me, and did not tell. Forgive me!"