Na dolyu pomeshchika Larionova vypali i schastlivoe detstvo v roditel'skoy usad'be, i ucheba v kadetskom korpuse, i voennaya sluzhba pri Arakcheeve, i tihaya pomeshchich'ya zhizn', i chinovnichestvo v gubernskom gorode. Ego sud'boy mogli zainteresovat'sya Pushkin, Goncharov ili Turgenev- no syuzhet podhvachen cherez dve sotni let Mihailom Shishkinym. Etot Larionov - invalid, razdavlennyy promchavsheysya mimo Bol'shoy Russkoy Literaturoy: obmanutyy stancionnyy smotritel'- (LEV DANILKIN) Russkuyu literaturu ya lyublyu vsyu. I Nabokova, i Chernyshevskogö