About the book: 2011 / "And now, when the dim light of the St. Petersburg afternoon dimly glimmers into my cramped, musty apartment, when through the dusty windows only a narrow, like a well, a yard and a piece of gray cold sky, when from the street I hear the annoying crash of carriages, the clanging of horse hooves and the exclamations of coachmen - I remember my distant homeland…»