Petersburg slums. Krestovsky V.

During his life, Vsevolod Krestovsky wrote many stories, essays, stories, novels. This was enough for collecting works in eight volumes, released after the death of the writer. But the fame and success of Krestovsky, of course, brought the novel “Petersburg slums”. They didn’t just read it, they read it. In modern language, the novel became the real bestseller of Russian literature of the second half of the XIX century. Particularly amazed and interested in contemporaries opened by Krestovsky Petersburg - Petersburg Trushno: readers even made collective excursions on the places described in the novel: the taverns, shops of the Rostov, the Neva and Kryukov Canal, etc. Krestovsky managed to organically combine the traditions of domestic prose with an adventurous plot, in Which intertwined the fate of the heroes related to a variety of social groups - from representatives of high light, to poor and thieves. In a word, all of Petersburg, brilliant and criminal.