num_pages: 255
description: Summoned to the country estate of his wealthy uncle Colonel Yegor Rostanev, the young student Sergey Aleksandrovich finds himself thrown into a startling bedlam. For as he soon sees, his meek and kind-hearted uncle is wholly dominated by a pretentious and despotic pseudo-intellectual named Opiskin, a charlatan who has ingratiated himself with Yegor's mother and now holds the entire household under his thumb. Watching the absurd theatrics of this domestic tyrant over forty-eight explosive hours, Sergey grows increasingly furious - until at last, he feels compelled to act.
language: Russian
title: The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants
titlecomplete: The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants (English and Russian Edition)
characters: Foma Fomich Opiskin
genres: Fiction, Drama, Humor, Literature, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Russian Literature, Literary Fiction, Russia
ratings_count: 3907
publisher: NCROL