TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:
In the plain text version text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_), small capitals are represented in upper case as in SMALL CAPS, text in bold is represented as in =text in bold=.
The book cover was modified by the transcriber and has been added to the public domain.
A number of words in this book have both hyphenated and non-hyphenated variants. For the words with both variants present the one more used has been kept.
Obvious punctuation and other printing errors have been corrected.
Leonid Andreyev
SHORT-STORY MASTERPIECES
VOLUME IV—RUSSIAN