Sergei Aksakov: 3 books

"The happiness of childhood is the Golden Age, and the recollection of it has power to move the old man's heart with pleasure and with pain. Happy the man who once possessed it and is able to recall the memory of it in later years!" Thus Sergei Aksakov recalls the "magic world"...

A Russian Gentleman Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov, a 19th-century Russian literary figure remembered for his semi-autobiographical tales of family life (1791-1859) This ebook presents «A Russian Gentleman», from Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly...

TRANSLATOR'S Serge Aksakoff,1 the author of this Russian classic, was born at Ufa, in the district of Orenburg, on September 20, 1791. His father held some office in the law-court of the town, and his grandfather lived in the country as the owner of large estates, to which Aksakoff ultimately succeeded....