Olesya

Olesya is a novelette by Alexander Kuprin written in late 1897 – early 1898 and serialized in Kievlyanin newspaper in October 30 – November 17, 1898. Olesya, the most acclaimed piece of his Polesye cycle, did much to build Kuprin's literary reputation and warranted his move to Saint Petersburg. According to the Kuprin scholar Nicholas Luker, "Olesya is the most charming of Kuprin's rural tales. Th...