The Slums of St. Petersburg
60 hrs. 3 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Vsevolod Krestovsky
Author
Vsevolod Krestovsky
Narrator
Evgeny Lebedev
Narrator
Evgeny Lebedev
Description
A socially adventurous novel by Vsevolod Vladimirovich Krestovsky “Petersburg Slums”—one of the most popular works of 19th-century Russian literature. Immediately after it was published, it brought its author worldwide fame.
Magnificent Petersburg is a city of white nights and gray fogs, luxurious palaces and dark slums— a city of secrets and mysteries. The brilliant life of high society and of the city’s underbelly. But they are not so far from each other. A beautiful княжна, who yesterday was shining at balls, is today forced to go on the panel to survive. And a young man who was dying of hunger unexpectedly becomes the owner of a huge fortune. Aristocrats and thieves, adventurers and keepers of brothels, the poor and the rich— all of them are participants in a grand life drama, where crime borders on true nobility, base passion coexists with pure love, and days filled with hope and happiness replace troubles and grief.
Magnificent Petersburg is a city of white nights and gray fogs, luxurious palaces and dark slums— a city of secrets and mysteries. The brilliant life of high society and of the city’s underbelly. But they are not so far from each other. A beautiful княжна, who yesterday was shining at balls, is today forced to go on the panel to survive. And a young man who was dying of hunger unexpectedly becomes the owner of a huge fortune. Aristocrats and thieves, adventurers and keepers of brothels, the poor and the rich— all of them are participants in a grand life drama, where crime borders on true nobility, base passion coexists with pure love, and days filled with hope and happiness replace troubles and grief.
