Literature
A Christmas Tree and a Wedding · Ёлка и свадьба
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Constance Garnett
A rich man at a children’s Christmas party counts the dowry of an eleven-year-old girl; five years later the narrator walks past a wedding. Dostoevsky’s sharp little story in Russian, English and French.
Start reading → Markdown.md ↓- Russian: Ёлка и свадьба (1848), text from ru.wikisource.org.
- English: Constance Garnett, in An Honest Thief and Other Stories (New York: Macmillan, 1918); Project Gutenberg.