The overcoat / by Nikolai Gogol ; edited and translated by Elizabeth Kresky ; produced by A. Lobanov ; directed by A. Ilyina.

Author/creator Gogol', Nikolai Vasil'evich
Format Audio (Streaming)
Publication Info[Washington, D.C.] : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, [between 2000 and 2009?], ℗1960.
Description1 online resource (41 min.).
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?GLMU;72795
Subjects

Other author/creatorChernovolenko, I. U.
Other author/creatorGribov, Alekseĭ Nikolaevich, 1902-1977.
Other author/creatorIlina, A.
Other author/creatorKresky, Elizabeth.
Other author/creatorLobanov, A. (Arkadiĭ)
Other author/creatorPeǐko, Nikolaǐ Ivanovich, 1916-1995.
Other author/creatorShtraukh, Maksim, 1900-1974.
Other author/creatorFolkways Records.
Other author/creatorSmithsonian/Folkways Recordings.
Uniform titleShinel
Abstract Akakii Akakievich is a lowly government clerk in 19th- century St. Petersburg. He survives on a meager salary, is without friends, and is treated with disrespect by his fellow office workers. As winter approaches, he finds that his threadbare, much-mended overcoat can neither protect him from the cold nor be further repaired. By extreme scrimping and saving he manages to save enough money for a new, warm coat. The first day he wears the new coat, everyone at the office notices, and one of his supervisors proposes a party that evening, in part to celebrate Akakii's acquisition. As Akakii is walking home from the party he is attacked by thieves and robbed of his coat. When the police do nothing to recover his lost possession, Akakii seeks help from a high-ranking official in the bureaucracy, but he severely reprimands Akakii for his audacity. Dazed at the harsh treatment, Akakii wanders home, becomes ill and delirous, talking confusedly about a new greatcoat, and dies within days.
General noteIncludes Russian text with English translation.
General notePreviously released on LP in 1960 by Folkways Records.
General noteShort story transformed into a radio play.
Cast M. Shtraukh, Y. Chernovolenko, A. Gribov, V. Yakut.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded in the USSR.
LanguagePerformed in Russian.