When Pushkin first read some of the stories in this collection, he declared himself \'amazed.\' \'Here is real gaiety,\' he wrote, \'honest, unconstrained, without mincing, without primness.
And in places....
When Pushkin first read some of the stories in this collection, he declared himself \'amazed.\' \'Here is real gaiety,\' he wrote, \'honest, unconstrained, without mincing, without primness