The overcoat /
Akakiĭ Akakievich is a lowly government clerk in 19th-century St. Petersburg. He survives on a meager salary, is without friends, and is treated with disrespect by his fellow office workers. As winter approaches, he finds that his threadbare, much-mended overcoat can neither protect him from the col...
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| Format: | CD Audio Book |
| Language: | Russian |
| Language Notes: | Performed in Russian. |
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Washington, DC :
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings,
[between 2000 and 2009?]
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| Series: | Custom compact disc series.
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| Summary: | Akakiĭ Akakievich is a lowly government clerk in 19th-century St. Petersburg. He survives on a meager salary, is without friends, and is treated with disrespect by his fellow office workers. As winter approaches, he finds that his threadbare, much-mended overcoat can neither protect him from the cold nor be further repaired. By extreme scrimping and saving he manages to save enough money for a new, warm coat. The first day he wears the new coat, everyone at the office notices, and one of his supervisors proposes a party that evening, in part to celebrate Akakiĭ's acquisition. As Akakiĭ is walking home from the party he is attacked by thieves and robbed of his coat. When the police do nothing to recover his lost possession, Akakiĭ seeks help from a high-ranking official in the bureaucracy, but he severely reprimands Akakiĭ for his audacity. Dazed at the harsh treatment, Akakiĭ wanders home, becomes ill and delirous, talking confusedly about a new greatcoat, and dies within days. |
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| Item Description: | Short story transformed into a radio play. Previously released on LP in 1960 by Folkways Records. Russian text with English translation inserted in container. Sound recording. |
| Physical Description: | 1 sound disc (41 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Production Credits: | Music, N. Peiko. |