Authors: M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin
Categories: Fiction
Publisher: Apollo
Published Date: 2017-09-07
Language: en
Description: Anna Petrovna rules the ancestral estate of the Golovlev family with an iron hand. Around her swarm her family; her alcoholic sons, dissipated grandchildren and degenerate husband. But, in his darkened study, her son Porfiry – 'Judas the Bloodsucker' – relentlessly schemes for an overthrow of power. In this powerful novel, the great Russian satirist presents a stark portrait of the Russian gentry sapped by generations of idleness and social irrelevance.
