The Life of a Useless Man ( pre-reform Russian : Жизнь ненужнаго человѣка ; post-reform Russian : Жизнь ненужного человека , romanized : Zhizn' nenuzhnogo cheloveka , also translated as The Spy: The Story of a Superfluous Man ) is a 1908 novel by Maxim Gorky . It concerns the "plague of espionage" under the Empire; the protagonist is Yevsey Klimkov, who spies for the Tsarist regime.
14-590: Russian writing circle (1899–1916) For the film and television production company, see Sreda (production company) . [REDACTED] Members of the Sreda, 1902: Top row from left: Stepan Skitalets , Fyodor Chaliapin , Evgeny Chirikov ; bottom row from left: Maxim Gorky , Leonid Andreyev , Ivan Bunin , Nikolai Teleshov . The Moscow Literary Sreda ( Russian : Моско́вская Литерату́рная Cреда , romanized : Moskovskaya Literaturnaya Sreda/Moskovskaja Literaturnaja Sreda )
28-437: A Useless Man (1908) A Confession (1908) The Artamonov Business (1925) The Life of Klim Samgin (1925–1936) Short stories " Makar Chudra " (1892) " Old Izergil " (1895) " Chelkash " (1895) " Creatures That Once Were Men " (1897) " Twenty-six Men and a Girl " (1899) Plays The Philistines (1901) The Lower Depths (1902) Summerfolk (1904) Children of
42-476: A Useless Man The orphan boy Yevsey Klimkov is apprenticed to the owner of a shop, who secretly sells prohibited revolutionary books and then informs on his customers to the police. The bookseller is murdered, and the bereft, frail, and weak Klimkov is coerced by the Tsarist police to be a spy and informer. Klimkov admires the revolutionaries, but lives in fear of being discovered by them. He consoles himself that he
56-522: A report to the Russian Central Committee of Foreign Censorship characterized the book with "The author sets out to contrast the nastiness of the [government] spies and provocateurs on the one hand with the nobility of the revolutionaries on the other... and since the author frequently mentions the Tsar and the revolutionaries' intentions regarding his person, and makes it clear that every bad thing that
70-462: Is different from Wikidata Articles containing Russian-language text Sreda (production company) Sreda ( Russian : Среда , Environment ) is a production company which produces TV programs and serials for Channel One , Russia-1 , NTV , Channel 5 , TV Centre , REN TV , STS , TV-3 , Friday! , also collaborated with the Ukrainian channels Ukraine , Inter , 1+1 and ICTV ,
84-455: Is done in Russia is done for the glory of the Tsar and at his command... It is clear that this book should not only be banned, but not issued on petition." The Committee classified the novel as "Prohibited, not to be distributed". In 1914 the publishing house Life and Knowledge ( Russian : Жизнь и знание ) decided to release The Life of a Useless Man in the tenth volume of Gorky's works. The book
98-410: Is just following orders, but when unable to gather sufficient information, he makes it up. The role of the agent provocateur is commended to Klimkov, and he takes it: he encourages some revolutionaries to produce illegal pamphlets, supplies them with the printing facilities, and then has them arrested. His reward is 25 rubles for sending seven people to prison. Torn inside, Klimkov confesses to one of
112-466: The organs of the tsarist secret police – was published in Russia in 1917, Life and Knowledge noting "The court having upheld the censorship, we managed to save only the first six and a half chapters from destruction. And we could only offer a bland note that 'circumstances beyond our control have forced us to offer this book in extremely abbreviated form' – the Tsarist censor did not allow us to print anything else about this... currently we are releasing, as
126-500: The BBC channel (the series The Dark Side of the Moon ). In 2016 Sreda adapted another BBC series ( Luther ), under the title of Klim . It is also the first Russian television company which managed to sell its series ( Silver Spoon ) to Netflix . Other series which Netflix acquired from Sreda include The Method , Locust , Fartsa , Territory , and Sparta . The Life of
140-614: The Belarus channel Belarus-1 and the Kazakh channel Channel One Eurasia . It was founded in June 2008 by Alexander Tsekalo after his departure from the post of deputy general director for special projects of the Channel One. Until March 31, 2014 the co-owner of the company was producer Ruslan Sorokin. It is the first TV company in the history of Russian television, which adapted the serial format of
154-1120: The Sun (1905) Barbarians (1905) Enemies (1906) The Last Ones (1908) Reception (1910) Queer People (1910) Vassa Zheleznova (1910/1935) The Old Man (1915) Poetry The Song of the Stormy Petrel (1901) Non-fiction Autobiographies (1913–1923) The I.V. Stalin White Sea – Baltic Sea Canal (1934, editor) Related articles Maria Andreyeva Maxim Gorki Theatre Gorky Park (Moscow) Gorky Park (Rostov-on-Don) Maxim Gorky Literature Institute Gorky Museum Sreda Znanie Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sreda&oldid=1254181222 " Categories : Writing circles Literary circles Russian short story writers Russian male writers Russian male artists Russian literary societies Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
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#1733093925456168-448: The revolutionaries, then tries to assassinate the police chief in revenge of his plight. He fails, and then hangs himself. Maxim Gorky completed The Life of a Useless Man in the summer of 1907, before The Confession , although The Confession was published first. It was not possible to publish the book In Russia, so it was published in Berlin by I. P. Ladyzhnikov. On February 24, 1910,
182-1702: Was a Moscow literary group founded in 1899 by Nikolai Teleshov . The name Sreda means Wednesday, taken from the day of the week on which writers and other artists met at Teleshov's home. The last meeting of the Sreda took place in 1916. List of Sreda members [ edit ] Leonid Andreyev Pyotr Boborykin Ivan Bunin Fyodor Chaliapin Anton Chekhov (Visitor) Evgeny Chirikov Sergey Elpatyevsky Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovsky (Visitor) Maxim Gorky Evgeny Goslavsky Sergey Gusev-Orenburgsky Aleksandr Kuprin Vladimir Korolenko (Visitor) Isaac Levitan Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak Sergey Terentyevich Semyonov Alexander Serafimovich Ivan Shmelyov Stepan Skitalets Fyodor Sologub (Visitor) Nikolai Teleshov Viktor Vasnetsov Vikenty Veresaev Semyon Yushkevich Boris Zaytsev Nikolai Zlatovratsky See also [ edit ] Znanie Publishers References [ edit ] ^ Handbook of Russian Literature, Victor Terras, Yale University Press 1990. ^ A Writer Remembers by Nikolay Teleshov, Hutchinson, NY, 1943. ^ The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). 2010, The Gale Group, Inc. ^ Reference Guide to Russian Literature, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago, 1998. v t e Maxim Gorky Bibliography Novels Foma Gordeyev (1899) Three of Them (1901) Mother (1906) The Life of
196-450: Was printed but distribution was delayed by censorship. In February 1914 the St. Petersburg Press Committee decided to initiate criminal proceedings against Gorky and seize all copies of the book. On May 19, 1914, this decision was carried out, and most of The Life of a Useless Man was cut out of all 10,400 copies of the volume. Cuttings – the two thirds of the book that depict the activities of
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