Selected Stories

Alexei Tolstoy, the author of the well-known trilogy The Ordeal and the historic novel Peter I, also wrote small but highly artistic works on the life of Russian small-country gentry at the beginning of the twentieth century. The most popular among them is The Lame Prince, written in 1912. The author's attention was focused at the time on problems of morals, the questions of friendship and love. Contents: The Cockalorum (A Week in Turenevo) Mishuka Nalymov (A Tale of the Trans-Volga) The Lame Prince The Gullies Arkhip Nikita's Childhood A Tale of the Time of Troubles Lovely Lady Under Water The Man in Pince-Nez The Ancient Route Ivan Sudarev's Tales Nocturnal Soliloquy in the Hay How it Began The Seven Grimy Ones Nina A Strange Story Mother and Daughter