The Old Estates. Essays on Russian Art and Life

"The old manor. Essays on Russian art and life "- is a building issue of" Old Years "for 1910. "In this story of the past, some special, perhaps only one, we, Russian, understandable peculiar charm; the charm of a rough splint miracle folksy Russian speech. . . All - on the background of the ancient temples with columns. . . Or somewhere in the Saratov Simbirsk province, or girls with oriental-Arapka vanes on the background of the snow drifts. What could be more absurd and funny, sadder and wiser? Russian tyranny, the main engine of our culture and the principal obstacle to it, can not be expressed as a brighter life of Russian landlord. " (Nikolai Wrangel) St. Petersburg Type. "Sirius" 1910.