In the Russian language and culture, "former people" (Russian: Бывшие люди, romanized: byvshiye lyudi) are people who lost their high social status. The expression went into wide circulation in the Russian Empire after the 1897 short story of Maxim Gorky Byvshiye lyudi (Бывшие люди), translated in English as Creatures That Once Were Men, about people fallen from prosperity into an abyss of misery.
In the Russian language and culture, "former people" (Russian: Бывшие люди, romanized: byvshiye lyudi) are people who lost their high social status. The expression went into wide circulation in the Russian Empire after the 1897 short story of Maxim Gorky Byvshiye lyudi (Бывшие люди), translated in English as Creatures That Once Were Men, about people fallen from prosperity into an abyss of misery.
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