Из деревни 12 писем: 1872-1887

The career of Aleksandr N. Engel'gardt (1832-1893), a Russian agronomist, journalist, member of the group Zemlia i Volia (Land and Freedom), and professor of the St. Petersburg University, was interrupted twice. First as a soldier, and second as a professor. He was arrested and exiled to his estate Batishchevo in the Smolensk Gubernia in 1871 from where he wrote his Twelve Letters from a Village about his social and agrarian reforms. Their publication made him known to all of literate Russia. In addition to this work, this book also includes another of his works Letters of 1863, an essay by Aleksandr Nikolaevich Engel'gardt, and The Case of Batishchevo by his son N.A. Engel'gardt. This is the most complete edition of these letters-essays and collection of biographical data about him and his family, including a genealogical tree. Name index, list of A.N. Engel'gardt's works.