About the book: 2009 / The book includes the best works of the writer about the tragic destinies of talented people from the people: "Stupid Artist", "Lefty", "Enchanted wanderer”, as well as the story “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk” - the story of the rebellion of a woman’s soul against the deadening environment of the merchant environment, the story of an all-consuming, insane passion, for the sake of which the heroine is ready to do anything, even murder…