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The Petchenyeg
B2 · Upper Intermediate · fiction · 14 scenes · Premium story
A retired Cossack officer talks all evening to a visiting lawyer about peasants, progress and the savagery of modern life. His guest cannot get a word in, cannot get to bed, and cannot get away until dawn.
Characters
- Zhmukhin (Жмухин) — Retired Cossack officer
- The guest (Гость) — Private attorney
- Lyubov Osipovna (Любовь Осиповна) — Zhmukhin's wife
Vocabulary from this story
- знать — know
- сказать — say
- гость — visitor
- который — which
- человек — person
- говорить — speak
- спать — sleep
- думать — think
- хороший — good
- жить — live
- время — time
- стать — begin to do sth