The chronicle of Smurin was village. Zasodimsky P.

Pavel Vladimirovich Zasodimsky (1843-1912) came to literature in the seventies of the XIX century, when the old feudal-consumer system had already “turned over”, and the new bourgeois was still “laying”. During these years, populism formed that constituted a significant stage in the history of the Russian liberation movement, social thought and literature. Zasodimsky was overlapped among those who convicted Kolupaev and Razuvaev, talked about the suffering of the people tormented by the “black crows”, about the spiritual searches of the intelligentsia, longing for the people of the best share. The observations and impressions he received from numerous wanderings on Russian provinces

found their bright embodiment in the first novel of the writer, The Chronicle of the village of Smurina. In his memoirs, Zasodimsky himself emphasized that his work was born by life itself, direct communication with the village. The work is based on the struggle of the two social forces that differs with genuine tension. They are personified, on the one hand, in the images of the fists of the spin and on the other,-in the images of the poor peasants, the villages of Smurin, whose thoughts and thoughts are expressed by the main character of the novel Dmitry Kryazhev. Both of these opposing forces are depicted in action, in direct opposition and collision, free from any covers masking them, in their true essence.