A local resident tells Kuragin that the abandoned church in which they stay for the night is a cursed place. The people there are ghosts of those before whom they sin. Peter sees Ksenia... Peter blames Olga and Mongo for all his misfortunes. Varya informs Tolstoy that she refuses to marry. Lugin is not guilty of anything, he behaved with dignity, it was she herself who tried to seduce him under the influence of Spartacus' potion.