Трущобные люди. Рассказы и очерки.

This collection of Russian Soviet writer V. A. Gilyarovsky (1853 1935) includes essays about pre-revolutionary Russia, the morals and customs of old Moscow “Slum People” and his most famous stories.

Wonderful author. The language is wonderful and easy to read. He was deservedly the “King of Reporters” of that time. The book has a destiny... It has been waiting for publication for 70 years... In 1887, Gilyarovsky prepared it for publication. All the stories and essays included in it had already been published once in various newspapers and magazines, with the exception of the essay from working life “The Doomed”. However, the book was not allowed to see the light of day: the entire edition, still in sheets, was seized at night during a search of the printing house by a press inspector. The proofs of the type were ordered to be distributed directly to the printing house. The book was banned by the censorship committee, and the pages were burned in the Sushchevskaya police station of Moscow. As the assistant to the head of the main department put it in response to Gilyarovsky’s request to allow the book to be published: “Nothing will come of your troubles... Complete darkness, not a single glimmer, no justification, only an accusation of the existing order. Such truth cannot be written.” Only 70 years later, in 1957, the book was published by the Moscow Worker publishing house.