LovelyMay
Stories
93
Chapters
1,516
Words
6.7 M
Comments
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Reading
23 d, 5 h
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After the Theatre opens with Nadya Zelenin stepping into the cold night air, her thoughts still lost in the echoes of the opera she had just seen. The emotions stirred by "Yevgeny Onyegin" settle into her like a dream she doesn’t want to wake from. The world feels richer, more meaningful, every shadow more poetic. Her mind latches onto Tatyana’s sorrow, and she feels a thrill in imagining herself as a girl fated to suffer for love. This imagined melancholy draws her closer to the idea of being noble…-
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A Lady’s Story opens with a recollection not just of a journey, but of an emotional turning point. Natalya Vladimirovna, looking back on the day she and Pyotr Sergeyitch rode through the countryside, remembers the storm not as a threat, but as a spark that set something quietly powerful in motion. The landscape shimmered in the tension between light and rain, and the thrill of nature seemed to free them both from social constraints. Pyotr’s playful remarks about castles and lightning only thinly veiled…
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In Exile introduces a remote Siberian riverside as the setting for a quiet but deeply emotional night, where two exiles—Canny, an older ferryman, and a young Tatar—share warmth from the same fire but not the same outlook. In the stillness, their exchange captures not only their isolation from the world but their contrasting ways of enduring it. Canny, who has long accepted this life of emptiness, speaks without bitterness but also without hope. He insists that wanting nothing leads to peace, suggesting…
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The Cattle-Dealers follows Gavril Malahin and his son Yasha as they undertake a taxing trip to transport cattle across the Russian countryside. Early in the journey, they are already huddled in a cold, confining train van, their boots muddied and their clothing thick with dust from the oxen. Gavril, seasoned in trade, sits with eyes half-shut, more attuned to delays and bribes than to the journey’s discomforts. In contrast, Yasha is restless and dismissive, often looking out with a distant gaze, his…
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Sorrow weighs heavily on the journey of Grigory Petrov, a man long dismissed for his foolish ways but remembered for his skilled hands. On a bitter, snow-filled night, he guides a rickety sleigh through a storm, his wife Matryona slumped silently beside him. The wind cuts through layers of clothing, yet Grigory speaks to her with a mix of forced optimism and quiet desperation. His words fall into the howling white void, unanswered. He tells her the doctor will surely help. But under his breath, there’s…
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"On Official Duty" begins with a quiet yet telling moment: a constable with a kind smile assures the examining magistrate that everything has followed procedure. His smile, modest and tired, speaks of a desire to be seen as dutiful, as someone who has done his part with care. When the sledge departs through a familiar landscape of snow-laden roads and dim forest outlines, a strange heaviness settles over the magistrate and the accompanying doctor. Although the snowstorm has passed, the silence now carries…
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A Tragic Actor begins during an evening performance of Prince Serebryany, where Fenogenov’s intense portrayal mesmerizes the audience and leaves young Masha spellbound. It is her first time in a theater, and what she witnesses changes her. Her fascination grows so strong that she convinces her father, a stern police captain, to host a dinner for the performers. He agrees, though he refuses to invite the actresses, worried about their influence on Masha. Fenogenov arrives with other members of the troupe,…
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A Transgression begins with Collegiate Assessor Miguev caught in the quiet chaos of conscience after a visit from Agnia, the former housemaid with whom he once had an affair. She doesn't demand affection or recognition—only support for the child she claims is his. Her threat to leave the baby at his doorstep presses against the very wall of Miguev’s carefully constructed life. His respectable marriage, his social position, even his pride, all hang in a delicate balance. That night, when he finds an…
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Small Fry begins with Nevyrazimov hunched over his desk, trying to compose a simple Easter greeting while the room offers him nothing but the sound of footsteps and the scuttling of a cockroach. The quiet around him is not peace but a kind of dull weight pressing against his spirit. He knows that beyond the walls, the world is full of light, church bells, and people in motion, all caught up in the warmth of celebration. His pen moves slowly, as though even his thoughts are stuck in the same dull loop as…
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The Requiem begins with a quiet moment in the village church after the final echo of the choir fades, leaving only Andrey Andreyitch behind. While others have already gone, his presence feels out of place, wrapped more in habit than in reverence. Dressed meticulously in clean, fine clothing, he does not appear as a grieving father, but rather as someone fulfilling a duty. Father Grigory’s approach breaks the stillness with sharp words, confronting the offensive phrasing in a prayer slip Andrey…
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