"--seeks the storm
As though the storm contained repose."

And in a leonine voice he cries defiantly:

"Let the storm rage with greater force and fury!"

HERMAN BERNSTEIN.

September 20, 1901.



FOMA GORDYEEF

Dedicated to

ANTON P. CHEKHOV

By

Maxim Gorky

CHAPTER I

ABOUT sixty years ago, when fortunes of millions had been made on
the Volga with fairy-tale rapidity, Ignat Gordyeeff, a young
fellow, was working as water-pumper on one of the barges of the
wealthy merchant Zayev.