A collection of stories about rural inhabitants of the European part of Russia, minor gentry, servants, serfs, and free peasants—about their way of life and customs, the complexity of their characters: stinginess and selflessness, baseness and nobility, love and deception—and also about the beauty of Russia’s nature.
Contents:
The Swindler and Kalinych
Ermolai and the miller’s wife
Raspberry water
The county doctor
My neighbor Radilov
The one-man officer
Lgovo
Bezhin Meadow
Kasyan with a Beautiful Sword
Burmister
The Office
The Loner
Two landowners