The “MediaBook” studio releases an audio version of the work by the famous Russian author Nikolai Alexandrovich Leikin “The Merchant Has Come! The Story of a Down-on-His-Luck Nobleman and Rich Merchants.” The book was voiced by the well-known theater and film actor Mikhail Roslyakov.
“Along a softened, rutted road toward the gates of a spacious country estate, reinforced with massive stone pillars and decorated with cast-iron lions with bared, snarling jaws—under whose right paw a large ball rolled—there rode up a small, smart, open-top tарантас and stopped. The harness horse—plump, chestnut-red, well-groomed, and slightly sweaty—rang with a little bell as it shook its head, wearing an elegant harness with a copper fitting and an ornate painted pole. Two men were sitting in the tарантас: the timber-industry merchant Manuil Prokofievich Lifhanov—broad-faced, with a rare beard already touched with gray—and his driver, a young fellow named Gordey: without eyebrows, with light flaxen hair, with only the faintest hint of a beard and a silver earring in his ear. He had on a padded nanqun jacket with a quilted, well-fitted backside, pulled tight with a red sash, and a cap.
— Here you’ll get down, Manuil Prokofievich? — asked the driver, turning to his master.
— And why? For what reason? What’s the point of ceremony? Now everything here is ours, — Lifhanov replied. — And the estate is ours, and the lands are ours. Get down, open the gates wider, and ride up to the main entrance.”
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