Beautifully written descriptions of people and places that no longer exist, this book makes you understand why the Bolsheviks did what they did.
Favourite stories: Singers, Chertopkhanov and Nedopyuskin, The End of Chertopkhanov and Living Relic

Beautifully written descriptions of people and places that no longer exist, this book makes you understand why the Bolsheviks did what they did.
Favourite stories: Singers, Chertopkhanov and Nedopyuskin, The End of Chertopkhanov and Living Relic

I loved these as well! I heard that these stories encouraged Tsar Alexander II to abolish serfdom.