Поликушка

Polikúshka: The Lot of a Wicked Court Servant

Author

Leo Tolstoy

Language

Russian

Year

1893

Country

Russia

Genre

Novella / Light Novel

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Polikúshka: The Lot of a Wicked Court Servant ("Поликушка") is a novella by Leo Tolstoy written in 1860 and first published in 1863. According to Tolstoy's translator Aylmer Maude, it is the story of a serf who loses some money that belongs to his mistress before hanging himself.