sekleteya

Updated: January 15, 2026

Aunt Anfisa had gone to the cloister, perhaps never to return she might die there. At home were Ivan, the old deaf dvornik, the old maid, Sekleteya, his cook and servant, and a black, shaggy dog, with a snout as blunt as that of a sheat-fish. And the dog, too, was old. "Perhaps I really ought to get married," thought Foma, with a sigh.

Maksim Gorky - The Man Who Was Afraid