Dark Avenues (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ivan Bunin
- First Published: 1943
- Type of Plot: Sketch
- Time of Work: The late nineteenth century
- Setting: Russia's Tula district
- Principal Characters: Nikolai Alexeyevich, Nadezhda
- Genres: Short fiction, Sketch
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Marriage, Emotions, Hotels, motels, or inns, Russia or Russian people, Happiness, Aging
- Locales: Russia
The Story
On a cold autumn day, a mud-spattered carriage stops at a small roadside inn. The elderly yet handsome officer who alights is evidently glad to enter a warm, tidy room after his chilly, damp ride. He locates the innkeeper, an attractive woman who resembles a Gypsy, and engages her in conversation. When he compliments her on her establishment's cleanliness, she says that she knows how to keep things orderly because she grew up around nobility. She then astonishes him by calling him by his name—Nikolai Alexeyevich. As he looks at the woman more closely, he realizes...
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