The Don horse he was riding was one he had bought from a Cossack during the campaign , and he wore a crumpled hussar cap stuck jauntily back on one side of his head . As he rode up to the camp he thought how he would impress Borís and all his comrades of the Guards by his appearance -- that of a fighting hussar who had been under fire .
Донскую лошадь, на которой он ехал, он купил у казака во время кампании, и на голове у него была мятая гусарская шапка, небрежно сдвинутая назад. Подъезжая к лагерю, он думал, какое впечатление он произведет на Бориса и на всех своих гвардейских товарищей своим видом — боевого гусара, попавшего под обстрел.