The Village of Stepanchikovo
- The Village of Stepanchikovo
"Село Степанчиково и его обитатели" or "The Village of Stepanchikovo" (also known in English as "The Friend of the Family") is a novella written by Fyodor Dostoevsky and first published in 1859. In it, Sergey Aleksandrovich (Сергей Александрович, the point of view character), is summoned from Saint Petersburg to the estate of his uncle, Colonel Yegor Ilich Rostanev (Егор Ильич Ростанев), and finds that a middle-aged charlatan named Foma Fomich Opiskin (Фома Фомич Опискин) has swindled the nobles around him into believing that he is virtuous despite behavior that is passive aggressive, selfish, and spiteful.
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* [http://ilibrary.ru/text/60/p.1/ Full text of "The Village of Stepanchikovo" in the original Russian]
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