The Antique Book of Three Leads of Nikolai Philipovich Pavlov, 1835. Moscow edition in Stepanov's printing house. Half leather wrap in excellent condition. Because of the criticism of serfdom, the Three Tales attracted the attention of Nicholas 1, who forbade the reprinting, and the published books to be redeemed and burned. The book contains the stories: Namedays, Auction and Yatagan. In the story of Namenina - describes the slavishly humiliating position of a serf musician, who was taken from his father and mother. After examining his lips and teeth, they decide that he can be a flute player in a serf orchestra. The author omits the story of what happened to the hero, who turned from a beaten and intimidated serf musician into a brave and independent staff-roommaster. Despite the happy accident, the exceptional metamorphosis, The inner world of the hero is recreated with genuine psychologism, with a detailed penetration into the character, which is helped by descriptions of everyday life and situations. All this gives an idea of the fate of talented people from the serfdom. Auction - In Storytelling in an ironic tone, elegantly and brilliantly tells the story of the revenge of a young secular man by an unfaithful lover. The author of Narrative himself makes you feel ghostly, impermanence, auction, random whimsy and at the same time the hopelessness of secular relations. Auction - there is a very nice joke, - said Pushkin, - a light picture in which three or four persons are originally placed. In the "light" instead of feelings there are only surrogates of feelings, and instead of suffering - imitation of them, they are not able to love or suffer in full force. In the story, the story of a young man produced in cornets at a time when the military triumphed on all stages.