HIDE AND SEEK

Fyodor Sologub was a Russian Symbolist poet, novelist, playwright and essayist. He was the first writer to introduce the morbid, pessimistic elements characteristic of European fin de siècle literature and philosophy into Russian prose.

Serafima Aleksandrovna is married to a very cold, unloving man. The only person whom she can turn to for love and affection is her young daughter, Lelechka whom she spoils and caters to all day. Lelechka is very fond of the game Hide and Seek, but when Serafima is told that this fondness to hide away is a bad omen, she begins to worry for her daughter. One day, Lelechka grows sick with the fever and ...