This is an unusual book. And, surprisingly, the book is new. It was banned under the Soviet regime, since its foundation - caustic satire on the "new people". The heroes of Turgenev and Chernyshevsky appear on the pages of Leskov completely new. Even at the time of its first publication, "at loggerheads" caused a lot of scandals, because the characters are easily guessed the then heroes. Scammers from nihilism, so they called a writer. Not lost topicality...