Word: ludmilla
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hated him, his peasant wife Grusha, who feared and loved him in the old peasant way. Sergei was a believing, practicing Communist, with nothing but hatred for the old order, with no time or interest for anything but the present and the future. Then in 'Moscow he met Ludmilla, a member of the intelligentsia-to Sergei, a "lady." Their attraction was mutual, and Sergei's qualms about "ladies" temporarily subsided when they began living together. Gradually he discovered that Ludmilla was an incorrigible embodiment of the old order. Her love for him was so possessive she could hardly...
...despair, Ludmilla began to deceive him with an old lover. Truthful himself, for a long time he never suspected her, but was alarmed at her emotional capers, came to the conclusion that "Women now must alter their psychology, or die." To Sergei, Ludmilla's absolute dependence on someone else, her desire to fill his whole life, was completely immoral. When at last he discovered she had been deceiving him he was disgusted, relieved. He left her a note: "We belong to different worlds. Even so, you are the best of the women of the old world. But our very...
Hopak from "The Fair of Sorotchinsk" by Moussorgaky, Overture to "Russian and Ludmilla" by Glinka, Hymn to the Sun from "Le Coq d'Or" by Rimsky-Korsakov, Soviet Iron Foundry by Mossolov...