Engineers Without a Portfolio
2 hrs. 0 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Nikolai Leskov
Author
Nikolai Leskov
Narrator
Alexander Karlov
Narrator
Alexander Karlov
Description
The reign of Nicholas Pavlovich. In Russia, total corruption reigns. For a conscientious person who wants to serve their homeland honestly, there are only two options: either a monastery or suicide.
For the first time the story was published in the journal “Russkaya mysl” (Russian Thought) in November 1887, with a foreword. The title was set after the foreword; the story had the subtitle: “From the stories of three righteous men.” In 1888 and 1889, “The Engineers Without Usury” (separately) was reissued twice by Suvorin (“The Cheap Library”), but already without the foreword.
In the thirties of the century drawing to a close, in a Petersburg engineering school, among the students one could find a very original and noble tendency—one that could be called a striving for impeccable honesty, even for holiness. Of the young people who submitted to this direction, three served it with particular zeal: Bryanchaninov, Chikhachev, and Nikolai Fermor. These three cadets of the engineering school are very interesting characters, and their fates have a common interest. In any case, there is much in them that can be useful both as data for characterizing the thirties and for clarifying contemporary disagreements about the significance of the school and the independence of the human…
For the first time the story was published in the journal “Russkaya mysl” (Russian Thought) in November 1887, with a foreword. The title was set after the foreword; the story had the subtitle: “From the stories of three righteous men.” In 1888 and 1889, “The Engineers Without Usury” (separately) was reissued twice by Suvorin (“The Cheap Library”), but already without the foreword.
In the thirties of the century drawing to a close, in a Petersburg engineering school, among the students one could find a very original and noble tendency—one that could be called a striving for impeccable honesty, even for holiness. Of the young people who submitted to this direction, three served it with particular zeal: Bryanchaninov, Chikhachev, and Nikolai Fermor. These three cadets of the engineering school are very interesting characters, and their fates have a common interest. In any case, there is much in them that can be useful both as data for characterizing the thirties and for clarifying contemporary disagreements about the significance of the school and the independence of the human…
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