The Blind Musician

In the wealthy noble family of Popelsky the only son Petrik is blind from birth His mother Anna Mikhailovna infinitely loving and pitying the boy educates him as a rare fragile flower And only Uncle Maxim who fought under the banner of Garibaldi in his youth is trying to accustom the boy to independence The boy begins to recognize the world by touch and one day his fingers find the keys of a piano But still not knowing the price of his talent he leaves with the tramps to seek the truth And now only love can reconcile him with the world of the sighted