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The Escape
B2 · Upper Intermediate · fiction · 11 scenes · Premium story
An upper-intermediate prison drama told by the man who can get hold of anything. A wrongly convicted accountant arrives with the first snow, builds a library and a school inside the walls, keeps the corrupt colonel's books — and spends four years preparing something beautiful. A story about hope.
Characters
- Semyon Ilyich (Семён Ильич) — The narrator, the fixer
- Andrei Kovalyov (Андрей Ковалёв) — The accountant
- Colonel Grodov (Полковник Гродов) — The head of the colony
- Vitka the Hammer (Витька Молоток) — The first graduate
Vocabulary from this story
- колония — penal colony
- тюрьма — prison
- заключённый — prisoner
- новичок — new arrival
- камера — cell
- двор — yard
- капитан — captain
- полковник — colonel
- собака — dog
- след — trail
- верёвка — rope
- ливень — downpour