Nikolay Yezhov
Foma Gordeyev, the son of a wealthy Volga merchant, doesn't want to continue his father's work. The mind is sickened by the dirt and injustice of life around him. Foma is seeking solace in a drunken rampage and wild antics.
After many years of desolation, he is half-ill at the opening of a night shelter built with his father’s money.
