My Apprenticeship

12 hrs. 48 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Maxim Gorky

Narrator Svetlana Raskatova

The future author of “Song of the Storm Petrel” speaks openly and without embellishment about the difficulties of independent life, starting from the moment he left his loved ones and went to serve strangers. With a truly epic scope, the writer shows human types, daily life, and the history of Russia in the first third of the 20th century. After the publication, critics responded to the new work in this way: “Written astonishingly simply, with a certain especially intimate quality—an intimacy that is only characteristic of M. Gorky—this thing reads with gripping interest.” And one contemporary admitted in a letter to the author: “Right now I’m reading your story with great enthusiasm… What particularly moves me is the depiction of women. In our evil age we have almost forgotten that if we still hold on—if we have not turned into technical beasts—then it is thanks to the life-preserving instincts of our women. You’ve expressed it so well, so tenderly and so deeply.”

1. Childhood (narrated by Lyubov Koneva) 2. My Apprenticeship 3. My Universities (narrated by Svetlana Raskatova) 0. How to Become a Famous Journalist (narrated by Filipp Matveev-Vitovsky)