About the book: year / Ivan Ivanovich Panaev (1812–1862) wrote a bright page in the history of Russian literature of the last century. Prose writer, poet, essayist, feuilletonist, literary and theater critic, memoirist, editor, he is inseparable from the social and literary struggle, from the stormy critical polemics of the 40s - 60s. This book includes works that give an idea of ​​the various periods and facets of creativity a talented moral and everyday life writer and satirist, works that have absorbed the best features of Panaev the writer: democracy, consistent commitment to advanced ideas, apt focus of satire, observation, ease and fascination of presentation and liveliness of language. This is why Panaev’s work has earned the respect of Belinsky, Chernyshevsky, Nekrasov, this is why it is also interesting to the modern reader.