Mikhail Massin

It Was Like That, But It Won't Be

A Corpse Living

"The Living Corpse" - Fedor Protasov is tormented by the thought that his wife Liza never really made a clear choice between him and Victor Karenin, a more conventional rival for her hand. He wants to kill himself, but doesn't have the nerve. Running away from his life, he falls in with Gypsies, and into a sexual relationship with a Gypsy singer Mascha. Meanwhile, his wife Liza, presuming him dead, marries the other man, Victor.

At The Beauty's Altar

Martin Wagner

The action takes place in the Volga Germans republic in the 1920s. The communist, a native of this village, who returns from the Red Army, Martin Vagner, with the help of the central Soviet power and the party, provides economic support to the poor, and then, with the help of the poor's rebellion, wrests the village council from the hands of the kulaks. Missing 3rd part

In the Frenzy of the New Economic Policy

About the moral corruption of a good manager who fell under the influence of the NEP (New Economic Policy) environment. Partially lost.

The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.