Based on the similarity of his cold mind, Chaadaev can be placed next to Pecherin. But if they stand next to each other, then their backs are to each other Vladimir Pecherin. Photo: archive In May 1837, a young man in nice trousers wandered along the roads of France. In the morning, after drinking a cup of coffee, he walked ten miles, and twenty, and thirty, on this single exercise, and after forty he began to get tired. He had eaten nothing all day and had no money.