The chronicle of Smurin was village

Pavel Vladimirovich Zasodimsky (1843-1912) came to literature in the seventies of the XIX century, when the old feudal-consumer system had already “turned over”, and the new bourgeois was still “stacked”. During these years, populism formed that constituted a significant stage in the history of the Russian liberation movement, social thought and literature. Zasodimsky was overlooking those who convicted Kolupaev and Razuvayev, talked about the suffering of the people tormented by the black crows, about the spiritual searches of the intelligentsia, longing for a better share for the people. The observations and impressions he received from numerous wanderings on Russian provinces
found their vivid embodiment in the first novel of the writer, The Chronicle of the village of Smurina. In his memoirs, Zasodimsky himself emphasized that his work was born by life itself, direct communication with the village. The work is based on the struggle of the two social forces that differs with genuine tension. They are personified, on the one hand, in the images of the fists of the spin and on the other,-in the images of the poor-penden, the village of Smurin, whose thoughts and thoughts, expresses the main character of the novel Dmitry Kryazhev. Both
These opposing forces are depicted in action, in direct opposition and collision, free from any cover masking them, in their true essence