Alexander Nikolaevich Engelhardt is a chemist, writer and public figure of the 60s and 70s of the 19th century, known to the general public mainly as the author of the letters “From the Village”. These are indeed detailed letters, the first of which was sent in 1872 to Otechestvennye zapiski from the Engelhardt family estate - the village of Batishchevo, Dorogobuzh district, Smolensk region. And then for ten years OZ readers waited for the publication of the next letter. The twelfth letter was already published in Vestnik Evropy - Otechestvennye zapiski was closed. “Letters” was published as a book at one time, read by Lenin and Marx, thanks to which “From the Village” was republished after 1917. CONTENTS: Letters from the Village. 12 letters. 1872-1887 (7).ADDITIONSLetters of 1863 (479).N.A.Engelhardt. Alexander Nikolaevich Engelhardt and the Batishchev case. (Biographical sketch) (510).N.A.Engelgardt. Episodes of my life. (Excerpts) (558).APPENDICESB.F.Egorov. Letters “From the Village” as a literary and journalistic monument (575). D.I. Budaev, O.D. Budaeva. Letters “From the Village” as a historical source (582). V.P. Novikov (Smolensk), D. Shpaar (Berlin). Agronomic heritage of A.N. Engelhardt (597). A.V. Tikhonov. The Engelhardt family and its pedigree (611). Notes (A.V. Tikhonova, D.I. Budaev) (636). The main works of A.N. Engelhardt (compiled by B.F. Egorov, A.V. Tikhonova) (669 ). Dictionary of dialect, church and obsolete words (compiled by A.V. Tikhonova) (682). Index of names (compiled by A.V. Tikhonova) (702). Index of periodicals (compiled by B.F. Egorov, A.V. Tikhonov) (707). Abbreviations (709). List of illustrations (710). LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS: A.N. Engelgardt. Photo from 1870 (IRL RAS Museum). Frontispiece.Plan of Batishchev - the estate of A.N.Engelhardt - p.9.A.N.Engelhardt. Manuscript of the beginning of the First Letter “From the Village” (RGALI. F.572. Op.2. D.4) - p.10. Secret order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the Smolensk governor to strengthen supervision over A.N. Engelhardt (GASO. F.1. Op .8. D.1141) - p.392.A.N.Engelgardt. Photo of 1861. Reproduced from: Proceedings of the Engelhardt Agricultural Experimental Station of Dorogobuzhsky District. Smolensk province. Compiled by N.K. Malyushitsky. St. Petersburg, 1913 (insert). A.N.Engelgardt. Photo of 1871 (insert). A.N.Engelgardt. Letter to the Smolensk governor on February 24, 1882 about the constant delays of letters (GASO. F.1. Op.8. D.1141) - p.441. A.N. Engelhardt. Photo from the early 1880s. (insert). Batishchevo. The Red Court and the house where A.N. Engelgardt died. Photo from the 1890s. (insert).Landscape of Batishchevsky fields. Photo from the 1890s. (insert). Batishchevo. Huts. Photo from the 1890s. From the funds of the Smolensk Regional Museum-Reserve (insert). P.A. Vyazemsky - to the censors - p. 476. Birth certificate of A. N. Engelhardt - p. 572. Batishchevo. Headman Ivan Pavlovich Bogachev and A.N. Engelhardt’s son Nikolai Alexandrovich. Photo from the late 1890s. From the funds of the Smolensk Regional Museum-Reserve (inset). Diagram of the Engelhardt family tree (inset). Coat of arms of the Smolensk branch of the Engelhardt family. Cited from: General Armorial of the Noble Families of the All-Russian Empire (Part VI, No. 91) (insert).