Made It to People

9 hrs. 56 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Nikolay Leykin

Narrator Gennady Postrigaylo

Description

The story tells of a hero’s life journey: with his quick wit and willingness to deceive, he gradually “breaks through” into respectable society. Along the way, he forgets his simple origins and adopts the petty-bourgeois “importance”.

Leikin mocks greed, social hypocrisy, and the specific manners of St. Petersburg merchants and petty bourgeois at the end of the 19th century.