Mikhail Bulgakov. The white guard (№ 445016)

Gray-haired bankers fled with their wives, talented businessmen fled, leaving trusted assistants in Moscow, who were instructed not to lose touch with the new world that was emerging in the Moscow kingdom, homeowners who left their homes for loyal secret clerks, industrialists, merchants, lawyers, public figures . Journalists fled, Moscow and St. Petersburg, corrupt, greedy, cowardly. Kokotki. Honest ladies from aristocratic families. Their tender daughters, Petersburg pale harlots with painted carmine lips. Secretaries of directors of departments ran, young passive pederasts. Princes and altynniks, poets and usurers, gendarmes and actresses of the imperial theaters fled. All this mass, seeping into the gap, kept its way ...