Муму
Mumu
Gerasim, a deaf and mute porter in a Moscow household, loves a little dog, and his mistress orders him to get rid of it. Turgenev's story about serfdom, in plain narrative Russian.
The opening
В одной из отдаленных улиц Москвы, в сером доме с белыми колоннами, антресолью и покривившимся балконом, жила некогда барыня, вдова, окруженная многочисленною дворней.
In one of the outlying streets of Moscow, in a gray house with white columns and a balcony, warped all askew, there was once living a lady, a widow, surrounded by a numerous household of serfs.
Сыновья ее служили в Петербурге, дочери вышли замуж; она выезжала редко и уединенно доживала последние годы своей скупой и скучающей старости.
Her sons were in the government service at Petersburg; her daughters were married; she went out very little, and in solitude lived through the last years of her miserly and dreary old age.
Translation
- Constance Garnett, in Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian, New York, 1898Charles Scribner's SonsGarnett's translation from her Torrents of Spring volume (1897), reprinted whole.Public Domain
8685 words, about 67 minutes of reading.
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