The medical student Mayer, and Ribnikov, a student at the Moscow school of painting, sculpture, and architecture, came one evening to their friend Vassiliev, law student, and proposed that he should go with them to S——v Street. For a long while Vassiliev did not agree, but eventually dressed himself and went with them.
This tale is about one unique businessman who learns his lessons the hard way. In his own way, however, he tends to enjoy the experience just the same.
The setting for the entire story is the drawing room of Olga Ivanovna Irnina, a woman who is estranged from her husband and is currently involved with Nikolay Ilyich Belyaev. The story opens with a brief description of Belyaev: He is a “well-fed,†“pink young man of about thirty-two†years of age. He has three principal activities in life: He is a “St. Petersburg landlord,†he is “very fond of the race-course,†and he has a “liaison†with Olga.
Another peek into what it means to live on the rowdy side of life. Such lifestyles are fading away as individual liberty melts in the heat of new age authoritarianism.
When the trees walked and other stories by Ruskin Bond
This is the story of a man who lives life on his own terms. Read it for a glimpse into a rowdy lifestyle at its glorious best.
An adulterous affair between Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov, an unhappily married Moscow banker, and Anna Sergeyevna Von Diderits, a young married woman, an affair which begins while both are vacationing alone in the Crimean sea resort of Yalta.
