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Krestovsky" (1825-1889).
She published a great many short stories of provincial town life, rather narrow as to their sphere of observation. Her best work was "The Great Bear" (referring to the constellation), which appeared in 1870-1871.[35] When literature entered upon a fresh phase of development in the '70's of the last century, the careful study of the people, two men headed the movement, Glyeb Ivanovitch Uspensky and Nikolai Nikolaevitch Zlatovratsky.
Uspensky (1840) took the negative and pessimistic view. Zlatovratsky (1845) took the positive, optimistic view.[36] Like many authors of that period, adverse conditions hindered Uspensky's march to fame.
Shortly after his first work, "The Manners of Rasteryaeff Street," began to appear in "The Contemporary," that journal was stopped.
He continued it in another journal, which also was stopped before his work was finished, and that after he had been forced to cut out everything which gave a hint at its being a "continuation," so that it might appear to be an independent whole.
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