Белые ночи
White Nights
C2 · Proficient · fiction · 81 scenes · Premium story
In the luminous Petersburg summer, a solitary dreamer who knows the city's houses better than its people rescues a weeping girl on a canal bridge. Over four white nights they exchange their histories, and he falls in love with a woman waiting for another man.
Characters
- The Dreamer (Мечтатель) — The narrator
- Nastenka (Настенька) — The girl on the embankment
- The Lodger (Жилец) — The man Nastenka loves
- Matryona (Матрёна) — The dreamer's servant
Vocabulary from this story
- ночь — night
- небо — sky
- набережная — promenade
- канал — canal
- мост — bridge
- тротуар — pavement
- дача — dacha, summer house
- дом — house
- окно — window
- стена — wall
- паутина — cobweb
- утро — morning