Smolin and Ezhoff hang out with one of this author's title characters, who is disappointed to find out that his father is not a pirate but an owner of river barges.
This author wrote short stories in which a dying falcon falls into a snake's burrow and an old woman claims that light blue sparks on the steppe are produced by the heart of Danko. In another work of this writer, a woman is hit on the head with a copy of Fatal Love and another has boiling water poured on her feet. Ilya has an affair with the mayor's widow Uliana and Vyalov offers philosophy as the answer to every question in this author's novel about a linen (*) factory. Smolin and Ezhoff hang out with one of this author's title characters, who is disappointed to find out that his father is not a pirate but an owner of river barges. This author also created a factory food-seller who slipped revolutionary literature into lunches and a group of pretzel makers who are shocked to see Tanya seduced. For 10 points, name this author of The Artamanov Business and Foma Gordeyev who wrote "Twenty-Six Men and a Girl" and a play about Vaska, The Actor, and others who rent from Kostilyoff such as Luka, The Lower Depths.
This author wrote short stories in which a dying falcon falls into a snake's burrow and an old woman claims that light blue sparks on the steppe are produced by the heart of Danko.
Maxim {Gorky} [or {Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov}]