The great Russian writer N. S. Leskov sought in his work to comprehend the life of different classes, social groups, estates of Russia, to create a multicolored, complex, largely unstudied image of the entire country in one of the most difficult periods of its existence. In the eleventh The volume includes autobiographical notes, articles, memoirs, letters to the editor, letters.The text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.