Anton-Goremyka. Village. Fishermen

"In the circle of Russian writers," recalled Dmitry Vasilyevich Grigorovich, "there are hardly many who faced as many adverse conditions for a literary career in childhood as I did." Nevertheless, in 1893, on the day of the fiftieth anniversary of his literary activity, the best Russian writers, including Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, paid homage to Grigorovich as one of the patriarchs of national literature. Dmitry Vasilyevich became famous as the author of works that played an important role in the formation and development of critical realism. One such work is the story "Anton-Goremyka," presented to readers in 1847. The center of this story is the tragic fate of the peasant Anton. The tale of an ordinary man driven to complete ruin and despair by a number of circumstances beyond his control, explained by the conditions of serfdom, became in Dmitry Vasilyevich's story a convincing indictment against the main social evil of that time - serfdom. The story of Anton-Goremyka not only evoked compassion and pity for the oppressed peasantry, but it also stirred feelings of outrage and shame in people for the fact that such a thing was possible and still happens in Russia, resonating as a call to fight for the liberation of the people......