''Polikúshka: The Lot of a Wicked Court Servant'' ("Поликушка") is a novella by
Leo Tolstoy written in 1860 and first published in 1862. According to Tolstoy's translator,
Aylmer Maude
Aylmer Maude (28 March 1858 – 25 August 1938) and Louise Maude (1855–1939) were English translators of Leo Tolstoy's works, and Aylmer Maude also wrote his friend Tolstoy's biography, ''The Life of Tolstoy''. After living many years in Russi ...
, it is the story of a serf who loses some money that belongs to his mistress before hanging himself.
Influence
According to literary critic and translator
Leo Wiener, the book (along with ''The Cossacks'') "evoked a mass of very favourable criticism," even receiving compliments from
Ivan Turgenev, who traditionally opposed Tolstoy's works.
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is ...
purchased a copy, along with ''The Pursuit of Happiness'', and commented that Tolstoy can "crowd without overcrowding, the great canvas on which he works."
In 1922, it was made into a Soviet film: ''
Polikushka
''Polikushka'' (russian: Поликушка) is a 1922 Soviet drama film directed by Alexander Sanin, based on Leo Tolstoy's 1863 story of the same title: Polikúshka: The Lot of a Wicked Court Servant. It features the famous Moscow Art The ...
''.
See also
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Bibliography of Leo Tolstoy
References
External links
''Polikúshka: The Lot of a Wicked Court Servant'' from RevoltLib.com
from
Marxists.org
Marxists Internet Archive (also known as MIA or Marxists.org) is a non-profit online encyclopedia that hosts a multilingual library (created in 1990) of the works of communist, anarchist, and socialist writers, such as Karl Marx, Friedrich Enge ...
''Polikúshka: The Lot of a Wicked Court Servant'' from TheAnarchistLibrary.org
Novels by Leo Tolstoy
1862 novels
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