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Updated: May 19, 2025

Petka the hero of "Petka in the Country" is, at ten years of age, a barber's apprentice. He does not yet smoke as does his thirteen year old friend Nicolka, whom he wants to equal in everything. Petka's principal occupation, in the rare moments when the shop is empty, is to look out of the window at the poorly dressed men and women who are sitting on the benches of the boulevard.

Serge Persky - Contemporary Russian Novelists