Foma Gordeyev

10 hrs. 0 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Maxim Gorky

Narrator Georgy Fedorov

Description

“About sixty years ago, when on the Volga, with fairy-tale speed, million-strong fortunes were being created—on one of the merchant Zaev’s barges, the rich man’s barge, Ignat Gordeev served as a diver.

Strong, handsome, and not unintelligent, he was one of those people who are always accompanied by good luck in everything—not because they are talented and hardworking, but rather because, having an enormous store of energy, on the way to their goals they do not know—and cannot even—how to think about the choice of means, and know no law other than their own desire…”