It is hard for Katerina Petrovna to live out her remaining days alone. Is it possible that Manyushka, the daughter of a collective-farm shoemaker, will come running to help with the housework, or the watchman Tikhon will occasionally drop by.
"One day at the end of October, at night, someone knocked on the gate for a long time. Katerina Petrovna went out to look, but there was no one there. On the ...