Word: grusha
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...trying to decide who will have possession of a valley stream, its former owners, the goatherds, or those who now need it, the planters. He tells of a revolution in which the governor of a Caucasian city is overthrown and his wife forced to abandon their child. Grusha, a simple peasant girl, rescues him, carries him to the distant home of her brother, pursued all the way by Ironshirts, and eventually marries a dying man so that the child will not be raised a bastard. The peasant she marries is not dead, but merely lying in bed for a year...
...child is taken from Grusha, and a court must determine whether he will remain hers or be given back to the governor's wife. The second half of the play returns to the beginning of the revolution and traces the career of the judge, Azdak. A thief and village scribe, he is made judge by the soldiers, and during his reign he subverts the law for the sake of justice, taking bribes from the rich to give verdicts to the poor. He tries Grusha's case, and decides that the real mother is the woman who can pull the child...
Veronika lit her improvised lamp-a cup of kerosene with a twisted thread for a wick-and made breakfast: water-thin gruel, black bread and brick tea brewed on the pechka. When it was ready she woke 16-year-old Grusha, fed her and, with an endearing Nichevo, sent her off to work in a war plant. Eight-year-old Fanya tied her ragged valenkis on her feet and went off to school. "Nichevo, Mama, I am not very hungry," she said...
Most important of all, Veronika believed that 1943 would bring victory and peace. The heat would be turned on, the pechka would disappear, the old man would come home, Grusha would go back to school. What else would happen Veronika did not know, nor did she much care. That was enough to think about...
Sergei was a new Russian, a peasant who had fought in the War and the Revolution, had become a power in his native village and then graduated to a higher job in Moscow. He had abandoned his family, who feared and hated him, his peasant wife Grusha, who feared and loved him in the old peasant way. Sergei was a believing, practicing Communist, with nothing but hatred for the old order, with no time or interest for anything but the present and the future. Then in 'Moscow he met Ludmilla, a member of the intelligentsia-to Sergei, a "lady...