Stantsionnyi smotritel'

Master is apparently the tape sent from the distributor, Russian Language Specialties (Chicago)–a tape which was itself dubbed from a Soviet disc. From the Foreword to the text: "This edition of Pushkin's The Station Master serves as the visual counterpart to a dramatic reading of the story by A.N. Konsovsky. The few passages not included in the recording are enclosed in brackets in the printed version.... The printed text itself is a photo-offset reproduction of a 1958 Detgiz edition, whose editor was N.S. Abramova....”