Rothschild's Fiddle

The coffin-maker Yakov Ivanov, nicknamed Bronze, at the sunset of his life suddenly realizes that his life has passed without benefit and without any pleasure. He lived in constant anger, counted losses, scolded his wife, and only before her death understood that he had done nothing kind for her. Yakov’s last gesture in life is to bequeath his fiddle to the Jew Rothschild, whom he had always despised...