Stepanchikovo village and its inhabitants

The personal circumstances of the life of Fedor Dostoevsky, who found themselves in exile, for several years tied the writer with the Russian province.

The conflict of the story of the village of Steppanchikovo and its inhabitants" about the provincial life of the patriarchal estate is built on the confrontation of the ideal landowner and a small tradesman-a young man. Ignorance, low worship, the hero’s envy fill the established life in the estate with squabbles, scandals, and clarifying the relationship.
The satirical image of the character of the hero hated by the Dostoevsky certainly continues the Gogol tradition.


The psychologically infringed Thomas Opuskin, painfully recognizing his spiritual inferiority, in the past a humiliated person, turns into a tormentor, the danger of which the writer warned