The Village of Stepanchikovo
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dostoyevsky said he wrote the Village of Stepanchikovo (1859) for the sheer pleasure of prolonging the adventures of my new hero and enjoying a good laugh at him. This hero is not unlike myself…Dostoyevsky’s narrator has been summoned to his uncle Colonel Rostanev’s remote country estate in the hope that he will act as decoy and rescue Rostanev’s former ward, Nastenka Ye….Read More
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