Fortune's Fool: Nakhlebnik

Fortune's Fool is a play written by Ivan Turgenev in 1848. The setting is a vast Russian country estate where the resident aristocrats and their many servants are jolted out of their tranquillity by the arrival of someone from the city, down-on-his-luck Vassily Semyonitch Kuzovkin, whose own property has been tied up for years in a hopeless lawsuit.