And in a leonine voice he cries defiantly:
“Let the storm rage with greater force and fury!”
HERMAN BERNSTEIN.
September 20, 1901.
FOMA GORDYEEF
Dedicated to
ANTON P. CHEKHOV
By
Maxim Gorky
CHAPTER I
ABOUT sixty years ago, when fortunes of millions had been made on the Volga with fairy-tale rapidity, Ignat Gordyeeff, a young fellow, was working as water-pumper on one of the barges of the wealthy merchant Zayev.