Complex sentence: In the last days of summer of 1861 Nikolai Uspensky returned from his Paris vacation to his remote village in Tula gubernia where locals treated him like a foreign maverick, flocking to his place to hear stories about Parisian wonders.
Split into simpler sentences: In the last days of summer of 1861 Nikolai Uspensky returned from his Paris vacation to his remote village in Tula gubernia. There the locals treated him like a foreign maverick, flocking to his place to hear stories about Parisian wonders.