Nadenka — the youngest in a large family of provincial gentry, the Oleksins — grows up in new times for the Russian Empire. The merchant class is rising, to which now belongs her older sister Varvara, who has replaced her...
mother, the wife of one of the richest entrepreneurs in the country. Young intellectual revolutionaries are also emerging, ready to fight against autocracy through bloody terror… Old merchant Moscow is bubbling, suddenly having become one of the cultural and political centers of Europe. Novelty reigns in everything: in fashion and ideas, theatrical performances and politics. And how difficult it is for a young girl to find herself in this mad whirl of modernity! «Ease My Sorrows» — a wonderful novel by Boris Vasilyev, which can be read both as part of his fascinating family saga about the Oleksin gentry and as a completely separate work with a sharp plot and vivid, memorable characters.
Nadenka — the youngest in a large family of provincial gentry, the Oleksins — grows up in new times for the Russian Empire. The merchant class is rising, to which now belongs her older sister Varvara, who has replaced her mother, the wife of one of the richest entrepreneurs in the country. Young intellectual revolutionaries are also emerging, ready to fight against autocracy through bloody terror… Old merchant Moscow is bubbling, suddenly having become one of the cultural and political centers of Europe. Novelty reigns in everything: in fashion and ideas, theatrical performances and politics. And how difficult it is for a young girl to find herself in this mad whirl of modernity! «Ease My Sorrows» — a wonderful novel by Boris Vasilyev, which can be read both as part of his fascinating family saga about the Oleksin gentry and as a completely separate work with a sharp plot and vivid, memorable characters.
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