the intimate life of the peasant. The majority of his works deal with the issues of the peasants, and with lower-class intellectuals, whose purpose he felt it was to devote themselves to the people. English translations Perpetuum Mobile (perpetual motion), and First Storm, (short stories), from The Salt Pit, Raduga Publishers, 1988. References 1853 births 1892 deaths People from Krasnogvardeysky District, Orenburg Oblast People from Buzuluksky Uyezd Essayists from the Russian Empire Short story writers from the Russian Empire 19th-century pseudonymous writers Political activists from the Russian Empire Russian Empire prisoners and detainees Internal exiles from the Russian Empire Prisoners of the Peter and Paul Fortress