The Emperor entered the Cathedral of the Assumption. The crowd spread out again more evenly, and the clerk led Petyapale and breathlessto the Tsar-cannon. Several people were sorry for Petya, and suddenly a crowd turned toward him and pressed round him. Those who stood nearest him attended to him, unbuttoned his coat, seated him on the raised platform of the cannon, and reproached those others (whoever they might be) who had crushed him.