Archives for January 2008
Gambling Tragedy - episode from Leo Tolstoy story “Two Hussars” (Part 2).
Ilyin had just finished playing and having lost his last kopek was lying face downwards on the sofa, pulling one hair after another from its torn horsehair cover, putting them in his mouth, biting them in two and spitting them out again.
Two tallow candles, one of which had burnt down to the paper in the […]
Gambling Tragedy - episode from Leo Tolstoy story “Two Hussars”.
The uhlan cornet, Ilyin, had not long been awake. The evening before he had sat down to cards at eight o’clock and had lost pretty steadily for fifteen hours on end - till eleven in the morning. He had lost a considerable sum but did not know exactly how much, because he had about three […]