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The beautifully embellished, evocative stories of the nineteenth century Russian landscape and the difficult life of those who inhabited it were not only universally popular with the reading public at large but, through the influence they exerted on important members of Tsarist bureaucracy, contributed in no small measure to the major political event of mid-nineteenth century Russia, the Great Emancipation of the serfs in 1861. Rarely if ever has a book that offers such undiluted literary pleasure also been so strong a force for significant social change.

Hardback.