The Lame Nobleman

8 hrs. 58 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Alexey Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Narrator Marina Tolokonskaya

Description

Aleksey Tolstoy’s novel (1882–1945) “The Hobbled Gentleman” (1912) tells about a landed gentleman from the Samara province—native to the writer—prone to all kinds of oddities, and about all sorts of extraordinary, sometimes anecdotal incidents. “The Fools,” as it’s said about the degeneration of the Russian nobility of the early 20th century, was written by Aleksey Tolstoy during the period of emigration. A. N. Tolstoy is a truthful and merciless exposer of the dark, cruel sides of the past, continuing the tradition of classic critical realism. At first, he sought his positive heroes within the old society—within the noble and intelligentsia circles that were familiar to him.