Parallel to the history of Lida, the life story of karsavina is presented.
"Contemporary Russian Novelists"
Serge Persky
karsavina, terribly affected by this act of despair, leaves Sanine.
"Contemporary Russian Novelists"
Serge Persky
The four women in the story, Sanin's sister Lyda, the pretty school-teacher karsavina, Jurii's sister, engaged to a young scientist, who during the engagement cordially invites her brother to accompany him to a house of ill-fame, and the mother of Sanin, are all thoroughly conventional, and are meant to be.
"Essays on Russian Novelists"
William Lyon Phelps
