About the book: year / In the last third of the 19th century, Russian literature reached a brilliant peak. Leo Tolstoy and Shchedrin, Dostoevsky and Ostrovsky, Gleb Uspensky and Garshin, Mamin-Sibiryak and Leskov, Korolenko and Chekhov created in their works the broadest panorama of Russian life, revealed its “internal springs”, showed the tragedy of the situation of the people, driven to extreme poverty and lawlessness. The so-called “minor” writers worked alongside the famous representatives of Russian literature. They not only developed the tendencies of their great predecessors - the classics of realism, but were the initiators of the development of new issues, the promotion of new heroes, new principles of artistic representation. This publication includes works by I.A. Salov, A.O. Osipovich-Novodvorsky, N.I. .Naumov, N.N.Zlatovratsky, S.N.Terpigorev, G.A.Machet. The publication concludes with notes containing a biographical note..