Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin. Pit (№ 278017)

The fate of Russian prostitutes - Oh, what a tragic, pathetic, bloody, funny and silly way! Here, everything is aligned: Russian God, Russian latitude and reckless Russian despair in a fall, Russian backwardness, Russian naivete, Russian patience, the Russian shamelessness. All of them, which you take to the bedrooms, - look, look at them carefully, because they are the children, because they're all eleven years. Fate pushed them into prostitution, and since they live in a strange, magical, toy life, not developing, not enriched by the experience, naive, gullible, capricious, not knowing what to say that will make half an hour - just as children are. This bright and funny childishness I have seen the lowest the oldest of the girls, worn-out and mutilated as a cab horse. And not dying in them, never this helpless pity, it is useless empathy for human suffering...