"A Russian Gentleman" from Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov. A 19th-century Russian literary figure remembered for his semi-autobiographical tales of family life (1791-1859).
One of nineteenth-century Russia's finest prose writers, Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov'sNotes of a Provincial Wildfowler is companion to his popular Notes on Fishing and a classic of nature writing.Notes
Eight-year-old Sergei lived an idyllic family life in the country, but in the winter of 1799, a terrible calamity occurred: he was sent to boarding school. This memoir beautifully recounts his life as
Notes on Fishing was Sergei Aksakov's first book and Russia's first angling treatise. It presents a Russian gentleman's observations on the fishing tackle, angling techniques, and fish species he came
