Anton Chekhov
Vanka
Unabridged
8 minutes
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The story relates the plight of a nine-year-old orphan boy, Vanka, who has been apprenticed to a cobbler in Moscow. He writes a letter to his grandfather in the countryside, begging to be rescued from his cruel master. 'Vanka' was published in 1886.
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