In a play written in this language, the family patriarch molests a maid who had rigged a clock to chime prematurely.
In a play written in this language, the family patriarch molests a maid who had rigged a clock to chime prematurely. In another play in this language, a locksmith sells his anvil to cover his late wife's funeral. That play concludes with an alcoholic actor hanging himself, and Luka wandering away from the title location. This language was used to write the play Woe from Wit, as well as a novel in which a character dies of typhus after botching an autopsy. That novel centers on Arkady Kirsanov's nihilist friend, Yevgeny Bazarov. For 10 points, name this language used in The Lower Depths and Fathers and Sons, which were written by Maxim Gorky and Ivan Turgenev. 
In a play written in this language, the family patriarch molests a maid who had rigged a clock to chime prematurely.
Russian [or russkij jazyk]