Vassa Zheleznova by Maxim Gorky has only four reviews (now five) on Goodreads, and only 52 (53 with this) ratings, furthermore, it does not exist on The Greatest Books of All Time site, which may have some twenty thousand entries or more, although I have found myself at odds with the algorithm they use – you have a few thousand of my reviews here https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html

 

Vassa Zheleznova by Maxim Gorky has only four reviews (now five) on Goodreads, and only 52 (53 with this) ratings, furthermore, it does not exist on The Greatest Books of All Time site, which may have some twenty thousand entries or more, although I have found myself at odds with the algorithm they use – you have a few thousand of my reviews here https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html

 

9 out of 10

 

George Constatin https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-marriage-proposal-by-anton-chekhov.html was the greatest thespian that I know, better than Jack Nicholson, to name just one, maybe the next most formidable competitor, and he makes Vassa Zheleznova worthwhile, at least the version I saw

 

Otherwise, this is a modest offering, from what was not the best Russian creator, never mind looking at the world at large – these are personal views, ergo stop here, for you may find other utterings offensive, maybe I remember MAGA, Orange Caligula, Putin, and then merde will show on the page – even if the main character has…character

Mother by Maxim Gorky  https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/mother-by-maxim-gorky-nine-out-of-10.html is supposed to be one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, and it might be, only I am biased, first, there is this war in Ukraine which a majority of Russians still seem to support, even it is getting harder even for them

 

Ukraine has been attacking with multiple drones, and the Russians have casualties, see explosions far from the front, even in the Moscow area, but this is nothing to compare with the atrocities suffered by the victims, the Ukrainians, and it will be a horrible winter, seeing as they have no interceptors, or few left, and the missiles will create a carnage

The Russians have always had an impressive elite https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/mother-by-maxim-gorky-nine-out-of-10.html humanity will always admire Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov, and many others, despite the fact that most of their rulers have been Terrible, like that Ivan

 

Vassa Zheleznova is a very strong woman, we might think of MeToo avant la lettre, she has to manage the household, face the fact that her older husband has been accused, she can be tough, or mean, depending on how you look at it, one servant asks for more personnel, and Vassa denies the request, with acrimony

Wake up earlier, do more, is her demand, now, the two female actors made me think of the days after the revolution https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html in which I lose no occasion to boast that I participated, the actress playing Vassa was Florina Cercel…

 

I was a visitor in her house, but the servant girl meant much more to me, she may be the reason why I quote Shakespeare ‘my reason, angry that his prescriptions are not kept has left me, and now I desperately now approve Desire is death…’ https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-sonnets-by-shakespeare-is-supposed.html

 

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