Masquerade

2 hrs. 56 min.

Audio Plays, Radio Productions & Literary Readings

Language Russian

Author Mikhail Lermontov

Narrators Nikolai Mordvinov, Lyubov Smyshlyaeva, Konstantin Mikhailov, Vera Maretskaya, Rostislav Plyatt, Boris Lavrov, Boris Olenin, Lyudmila Sinitsyna, Vladimir Saburov, Mikhail Rozen-Sanin

Narrator Nikolai Mordvinov

Narrator Lyubov Smyshlyaeva

Narrator Konstantin Mikhailov

Narrator Vera Maretskaya

Narrator Rostislav Plyatt

Narrator Boris Lavrov

Narrator Boris Olenin

Narrator Lyudmila Sinitsyna

Narrator Vladimir Saburov

Narrator Mikhail Rozen-Sanin

Description

“The title of the drama ‘The Masquerade’ contains not only the direct meaning, but also a second, allegorical one. In Lermontov’s view, a masquerade is all that dazzling aristocratic Petersburg—where under the mask of outward respectability hide vice and crime. And only at the masquerade, having hidden their faces under masks, does this society bare its base vices and passions.”

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