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What can money buy when nothing seems worth living for?
In Millions and The Death of Ivan Lande, Mikhail Artsybashev explores what remains when faith, ideals and comfort lose their hold. These two novellas follow people pressed by money, power and loneliness. Some want more; others already have more, yet still feel an emptiness they cannot name or fill.
Power offers no easy refuge. Those who possess it find themselves watched, flattered and feared, while trust becomes rare. Artsybashev looks closely at lives without firm beliefs and asks what might give them purpose. His direct prose keeps the focus on mood and inner life, refusing to soften the questions with easy comfort.
What you’ll discover
- The limits of wealth Meet people whose possessions cannot settle the question of how to live.
- Power without trust See how money and position bend relationships toward flattery, fear and isolation.
- Belief and its absence Explore the emptiness left when religion, politics and tradition no longer offer meaning.
- Lives under pressure Look closely at loneliness and the unnamed gap that wanting more cannot close.
- A blunt literary voice Encounter direct prose that holds your attention on mood, doubt and inner life.
Who will love it
Readers who enjoy Russian fiction about conscience, money and faith will find two sharp portraits here, a restless rich man and a gentle idealist.
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The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A fortune makes Mishuyev a stranger everywhere
- Kindness reaches him, but suspicion rewrites it
- Power over a bought woman only deepens his shame
- He tests Maria Sergeyevna's love until it breaks
- Good intentions cannot buy a crowd's trust
- Ivan Lande comes home and gives everything away
- Tkachev tests whether love can win a bitter man
- Maria Nikolayevna is torn between beauty and holiness
- Lande meets a dying friend's despair with faith
- Two mirrored stories speak in the language of light
Who’s who
- Fyodor MishuyevA huge, sad Moscow millionaire who cannot tell whether anyone likes him for himself, and who longs for a friend to lean on.
- Maria SergeyevnaA beautiful woman who left her husband for Mishuyev's luxury and now wants to be loved and respected by both men.
- ParchomenkoA loud, cruel young millionaire who treats people as toys and chases Maria Sergeyevna.
- PodgurskiA shabby, shameless sponger who mocks the rich, borrows from them and sometimes defends the weak.
- Ivan LandeA frail, gentle student who gives away his inheritance and wants to meet hatred only with love.
- Maria NikolayevnaA young, beautiful woman in the river town who wants to live fully and is drawn both to Lande and to Molotchayev.
- MolotchayevA strong, handsome painter who worships beauty and strength and resents Lande's gentleness.
- TkachevA former foreman, bitter after a theft conviction, who once believed in Lande and now longs for a prophet.
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Des millions et La Mort d’Ivan Lande
A millionaire at a moonlit table feels nothing, while a gentle student gives away every ruble he has.
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A man sits at a marble table beside a moonlit sea. Waiters lean toward him, ready to leap at his first signal, and he feels nothing at all.
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A fortune makes Mishuyev a stranger everywhere
Millions opens at a Crimean resort, where Fyodor Mishuyev, a huge blond man with sunken eyes, cannot enjoy anything he owns. Waiters hover, strangers whisper his name, and nearby women laugh a little too loudly. He sees all of it and notices none of it.
His companion Maria Sergeyevna left her quiet husband to live with him. She changes her name and her dresses to suit his world, and the more she gives, the more disgust he feels. In a hat shop the clerks laugh when he says to take all the ribbons, then go serious the instant he frowns.
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Artsybashev, Mikhail. Millions & The Death of Ivan Lande. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/millions-the-death-of-ivan-lande.
Artsybashev, M. (2026). Millions & The death of Ivan Lande. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/millions-the-death-of-ivan-lande
Artsybashev, Mikhail. Millions & The Death of Ivan Lande. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/millions-the-death-of-ivan-lande.
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What is Millions and The Death of Ivan Lande about?
It joins two novellas. Millions follows a wealthy factory heir who is lonely among flatterers. The Death of Ivan Lande follows a gentle student who gives away his inheritance and tries to live by love, facing envy, faith and violence.
Who is Mishuyev in Millions?
Fyodor Mishuyev is a Moscow millionaire and heir to a large factory. He is physically powerful and deeply unhappy, because he cannot tell whether anyone cares for him rather than for his money. His quest for real human contact drives the story.
What does the title The Death of Ivan Lande mean?
Ivan Lande is the main character, a student whose gentle faith in people is tested. The title tells you the novella is about how a life guided by love and belief reaches its end, and what that life means to others.
The author
Mikhail Artsybashev
Russian novelist and playwright
Mikhail Artsybashev (1878–1927) was a Russian writer of novels, stories and plays. His works include Sanin, published in 1907, Millions and The Death of Ivan Lande. He was born in the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire. He moved to Poland in 1923 and died in Warsaw.
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