All N. Uspensky

Nikolai Uspensky was one of the founders of rural prose, and all subsequent classics who wrote in this direction (Victor Astafyev, Vasily Shukshin, Valentin Rasputin), to one extent or another, experienced it. And even L.N. Tolstoy, perhaps against his will, inherited Ouspensky''s traditions in such works as, for example, the plays The Power of Darkness and The Fruits of Enlightenment. Moreover, even after the assumption of Ouspensky, he said such words about him: "I put Nikolai Uspensky much higher than the exalted other Ouspensky, Gleb, who has neither that truth, nor that artistry."