Shame is a contemporary pastoral song

To what extent can a person make concessions to prove his good intentions and support for the authority? To what degree will his shame affect him? This is one of Shchedrin's forgotten masterpieces. Shchedrin wrote his novel during the escalation of the revolutionary movement against the tsarist regime. In addition to the political and social issues addressed in the novel, Shchedrin presented in this work an innovative form for the Russian novel in the second half of the nineteenth century. ...