Semenov, Sergey
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I Gerasim returned to Moscow just at a time when it was hardest to find work, a short while before Christmas, when a man sticks even to a poor job in the expectation of a present. For three weeks the peasant lad had been going about in vain seeking a position. He stayed with relatives and friends from his village, and although he had not yet suffered great want, it disheartened him that he, a strong young man, should go without work. Gerasim had lived in Moscow from early boyhood. When still a…- 85.1 K • Completed
I am already completely reconciled to the thought that papa has become close-fisted and harsh, and that he thinks only of himself, but today he gave me a great surprise. In the evening he brought from the factory-store about six pounds of bread. All day long Alexander had complained of hunger, but did not ask for anything to eat. He knew that everything was locked away. My heart aches, but I have nothing to give him. As soon as papa came, I said to him: “Oh, papa, how hungry we are!” At…- 5.5 K • Ongoing
- I was mistaken; yesterday morning papa had left on the table, not my morning portion, but my food for the whole day. Papa receives on his citizen’s card, as a workingman, one pound and a quarter of bread, and also some sort of “armored ration”, half a pound for each working day. I have no card as yet, and from this extra half-pound father doles out to me a little piece for the entire day. He says that he cannot give any more. He himself eats at the factory dining room. For the time being I dine at…
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- I love Petrograd! Through the car window one can already see the chimneys, the churches, and the roofs, roofs, roofs. And the vast, smoke laden sky stretches over it all. God, how my heart is beating! One minute more and I shall be there! I jumped out on the platform and was at once over-come. People are shouting, hustling, and running about. I have brought some food with me. I am taking it to my hungry papa, and it seems that, at the weighing-stations, every bit of food is being requisitioned. A large…
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- In his “Essays on Modern Russian Literature”, the Russian critic, Gorbachev, refers to the furor that this tale aroused in literary circles. He says: “This tale was deservedly translated into several foreign languages, and was repeatedly reprinted in Russia. Possessed of great talent as a realist, and of a profound knowledge of the life of the rank and file among the workers and government employees during the epoch of military communism, Semenov gave an uncannily truthful picture of the terrible…
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