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_aAndreyev, Leonid, _d1871-1919 |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aKeväisiä lupauksia; Alikapteeni Kablukovin elämästä |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026 |
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| 500 | _aTranslations of: Из жизни штабс-капитана Каблукова (Iz zhizni shtabs-kapitana Kablukova) and: Весенние обещания (Vesenniye obeshchaniya). | ||
| 500 | _aRelease date is 2026-05-08 | ||
| 508 | _aJuhani Kärkkäinen and Tapio Riikonen | ||
| 520 | _a"Keväisiä lupauksia; Alikapteeni Kablukovin elämästä" by Leonid Andreyev is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. It presents stark, psychologically charged portraits of Russian provincial life and military stagnation, balancing lyrical symbolism with raw realism. The first tale centers on the surly, lonely blacksmith Vasili Merkulov; the second on a weary alikapteeni, Nikolai Ivanovich Kablukov, and his troubled servant Kukushkin. Across both, themes of spring’s fragile hope, faith, drink, guilt, and sudden compassion collide with poverty and despair. The opening of the book first immerses us in Strelitski’s bleak winter and Merkulov’s harsh, solitary routine, then in the sudden spring thaw that fills him with religious humility and expectation. During Easter week he channels his turmoil into the great bell’s voice, drawing from it a human cry that awes the crowd, yet his renewal collapses when his daughter appears savagely beaten, dragging him back into alcohol and brawling. The second story begins in a frigid flat where Kablukov plans a modest holiday spread and sends Kukushkin to shop with a large note; the embittered servant, haunted by his starving family in the countryside, drinks and likely steals or “loses” the money. Kablukov spirals into maudlin self-pity, then, moved by the sight of the sleeping servant’s vulnerable face, softens, confronts, and forgives him—only for their fragile truce to be punctured as the old vodka carafe shatters. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cHelsinki: Emil Vainio, 1907 |
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| 653 | _aRussian fiction -- Translations into Finnish | ||
| 653 | _aShort stories, Russian -- Translations into Finnish | ||
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