Makar Čudra

"Makar Čudra" (Russian: Makar Čudra) is a short story by the Russian writer Maxim Gorky. It was first published in the newspaper "Kavkaz" in September 1892. Gorky wrote the short story while he was employed in the Transcaucasian railway workshop in Tbilisi. It is considered the first literary achievement that the author signed with the pseudonym Gorky. The story was screened in the Soviet film musical "Gypsies fly to the sky" in 1975. The unnamed narrator meets Makar Čudra, an old gypsy, with whom he begins a conversation. Čudra begins to tell the story of the tragic love between the horse thief Lojko Zobar and the beautiful Rada. Although they spent passionate nights in an idyll, for them love becomes a shackle, which restrains their desire for freedom and independence, but also a training ground for proving superiority...