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276:(1875). The second of these chronicles is the most widely popular of all Leskov's works. It deals with the Stargorod clergy. Its head, the Archpriest Tuberozov, is one of Leskov's most successful and noble portraits of a "just man". The deacon Akhila is his greatest character creation. It is one of the most wonderful of the whole portrait - gallery of Russian literature . The comic escapades and unconscious mischief – making of this enormous, exuberant, very unspiritual, and quite childlike deacon and the constant reprimands his behaviour draws from Father Tuberozov are familiar to every Russian reader, and Akhila himself is a universal favourite. But
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Some criticized the novel for crudely one-sided portrayal between belief and doubt and disbelief. But although portraits of the ex-nihilist
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and the novel's comic tone. Others dislike the replacement of a "real" traditional well-structured plot of a classic "realist" 19th-century novel and its balanced portraiture with a "series of anecdotes". This is because Leskov tried to write not a traditional novel, but a
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is not at all points representative of their author – it is too leisurely, too uneventful, too placid to be really quite
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community, but also describing in detail the ordinary, non-religious people's spiritual leanings. Book I looked more like background for the story of Savely
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