Three Men
By Maxim Gorky
13 Jun, 2019
There are many solitary graves amid the woods of Kerschentz; within them moulder the bones of old men, men of ancient piety, and of one of these old men, Antipa, this tale is told in the villages of Kerschentz.
Antipa Lunev, a rich peasant of aust
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There are many solitary graves amid the woods of Kerschentz; within them moulder the bones of old men, men of ancient piety, and of one of these old men, Antipa, this tale is told in the villages of Kerschentz.
Antipa Lunev, a rich peasant of austere disposition, lived to his fiftieth year, sunken in worldly sins, then was moved to profound self-examination, and seized with agony of soul, forsook his family and buried himself in the loneliness of the forest. There on the edge of a ravine he built his hermit's cell, and lived for eight years, summer and winter. Less