Кому на Руси жить хорошо by Nikolay Nekrasov
A panoramic epic in verse follows a band of peasants on a quest across the countryside to discover who, if anyone, truly lives well in their homeland; their encounters with landowners, officials, clergy, soldiers and ordinary villagers expose the cruelty of serfdom, bureaucratic indifference, poverty and moral decay, while the poem’s blend of biting satire, folk-song voice, tragic episodes and comic digressions creates a vivid portrait of mid‑19th‑century Russian life and concludes that genuine wellbeing is rare, found only in simple communal virtues and human solidarity amid pervasive injustice.
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- Published
- 1863
- Nationality
- Russian
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- Original Language
- Russian
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- Alternate Titles
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- Komu na Rusi zhit' khorosho
- Who Can Be Happy in Russia?
- Who Is Happy in Russia?
- Who Lives Happily in Russia?
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