Yegor Bulychyov and Others

Major timber merchant Yegor Bulychyov is terminally ill In his house he is surrounded by insignificant and greedy people impatiently waiting for his death Clever and insightful Yegor understands that he lived his whole life with strangers He protests in his own way against the dissimulation and hypocrisy of the masters the clergy liberals against the foundations of the bourgeois society that is going to collapse Bulychyovs dying curse drowns his class in the powerful sounds of a revolutionary song