Andreyev Leonid: 45 books

SOLDIER, what hast thou been under Nicholas the Secone? Thou hast been a slave of the autocrat. Conscience, honor, love for the people, were beaten out of thee in merciless training by whip and stick. “Kill thy father and thy mother if they raise their hands against me,” commanded the autocrat, —...

He was six years old, and the world was to him enormous, alive and bewitchingly mysterious. He knew the sky quite well. He knew its deep azure by day, and the white-breasted, half silvery, half golden clouds slowly floating by. He often watched them as he lay on his back upon the grass or upon the roof....

En “Los espectros”, Leonidas Andreiev nos traslada a un apacible sanatorio ruso, en el que conviven el elegante Pomerántsev, subjefe de la administración que cree volar con san Nicolás curando a los enfermos; Petrov, obsesionado con llamar a todas las puertas hasta que le abran; el doctor Sheviriov,...