Err on the Side of Mercy
18 hrs. 59 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Ivan Akulov
Author
Ivan Akulov
Narrator
Vladimir Sushkov
Narrator
Vladimir Sushkov
Description
A historical novel by the State Prize of the RSFSR named after M. Gorky laureate Ivan Akulov, the novel "Mistake, my dear, for mercy" covers the period from 1904 to 1910. It was printed in early 1987 in the magazine “Moskva.”
It praises the Russian peasant commune. Ivan Akulov turns to years even farther away—years that now seem to have vanished beyond history. These are pre-revolutionary years, the years at the beginning of the century. Forgotten now, they meant far too much. Those were the years of debates among the Russian intelligentsia about which path to take—about what road Russia in the 20th century should follow.
The author offers his hero, a Siberian peasant named Semyon Ogorodov, three options: terror; a peaceful life within the commune; and the same sort of life outside it, on plots of land allocated by the commune to the departing owner. Ogorodov chose the third option. In his novel, Akulov tries to show mercy to all his characters rather than punish them. Akulov’s novel carries a clarity of language, purity of intentions, and a note of mercy that covers the ominous intonations of the era.
It praises the Russian peasant commune. Ivan Akulov turns to years even farther away—years that now seem to have vanished beyond history. These are pre-revolutionary years, the years at the beginning of the century. Forgotten now, they meant far too much. Those were the years of debates among the Russian intelligentsia about which path to take—about what road Russia in the 20th century should follow.
The author offers his hero, a Siberian peasant named Semyon Ogorodov, three options: terror; a peaceful life within the commune; and the same sort of life outside it, on plots of land allocated by the commune to the departing owner. Ogorodov chose the third option. In his novel, Akulov tries to show mercy to all his characters rather than punish them. Akulov’s novel carries a clarity of language, purity of intentions, and a note of mercy that covers the ominous intonations of the era.
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