It begins in a military camp in the Caucasus, where a Serbian army officer with notorious bad luck challenges the odds and wins a round of Russian roulette, despite the certainty of a colleague that he was going to die.
It begins in a military camp in the Caucasus, where a Serbian army officer with notorious bad luck challenges the odds and wins a round of Russian roulette, despite the certainty of a colleague that he was going to die. The story continues with the murder of the Serb by a drunken Cossack later that night, and with the daring capture of the Cossack by Pechorin, the story's protagonist. FTP, name this short story my Lermontov, the final part of A Hero of Our Time.
It begins in a military camp in the Caucasus, where a Serbian army officer with notorious bad luck challenges the odds and wins a round of Russian roulette, despite the certainty of a colleague that he was going to die.
The {FATALIST} (Do Not Accept: A Hero of Our Time-- the work as a whole does not begin in a military camp)