Mamin-Sibiryak masterfully conveys the atmosphere of harsh working conditions and the passionate drive for wealth. Read about how greed can destroy people’s lives.
The novel “Gold” offers a vivid panorama of life of Ural gold seekers in the 1860s. Just abolished serfdom. And people often don’t know how to use the sudden freedom that falls on them.
Two lines—gold mining and the everyday life of camp life—interweave into monstrous patterns of the “gold rush.” The terrible, destructive force of gold enslaves people’s hearts, bringing no happiness to anyone: people go to any extremes, resort to fraud, murder, abandon their families, go mad…