The story "Judas Iscariot" by Leonid Andreev, the founder of Russian expressionism, is an unexpected and paradoxical interpretation of the image of Judas, which has become a symbol of betrayal and hypocrisy. Trying to understand the "psychology of betrayal", the author created a complex, mysterious and ambiguous image of Judas, who reaches for the light, but by the will of society is drawn into darkness.

(1871- 1919) . . .