Zakholustye literary fate: A. L. Tolstaya (Bostrom) "Lost Book"
This article examines a local text embodied by the 1886 collection Zakholustye [The Provincial Backwater], published by the writer A. L. Tolstaya (Bostrom). Conceived as an attempt to present an objective picture of contemporary provincial life in the mid-1880s, the book failed to achieve its intended goals and was lat...