Criminals

2 hrs. 17 min.

Miscellaneous

Language Russian

Author Maxim Gorky

Narrator Artem Ostrenkov

Description

The yard of the colony. Two single-story wooden buildings stand facing each other—carpentry and shoemaking workshops. Between them is a barn-like church that serves as a school. At its entrance, hanging on a crossbeam between two posts, is a bell. On the right and left of the church, diagonally, like two wings, stretch the dormitories of the prisoners; on the windows there are iron bars. In the depth is a two-story administrative house, a shed, a cellar—and beyond that, a vegetable garden…