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law-court of the town, and his grandfather lived in the country as the owner of large estates, to which Aksakoff ultimately succeeded. His grandfather had

at Moscow for some years-he retired in 1839 and devoted himself exclusively to literature. He married in 1816; and his two sons, Constantine

his Family History, which is here translated under the title of A Russian Gentleman. This is his most famous work: his portrait of his grandfather

gazine in 1846; and the whole work appeared, with the addition of a short Epilogue, in 1856. He published Recollections in

Stepan Mihailovitch. Plain and rough in his appearance and habits, but proud of his long descent; hardly able to read or write, but full of natural intelligence; capable of furious anger and extreme violence in his an

will be inclined to think that the author must have had a lively imagination. I therefore translate

all, on this ground: you will find in the

efly from his mother; but there are certainly scenes

xt, and sometimes omitting them wholly or in part. I know of two previous translations. A German translation, Russische Familienchronik, by Sergius Raczynski, was published at Leipzig in 1858. This seems to me a good translation, and I have found it useful in some diffic

ok of Memoirs-his Recollections of school and college; an

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