Действие трех повестей, составивших этот прозаический сборник писательницы, происходит в первой половине XIX столетия, в эпоху, навсегда связанную для нас с жизнью и творчеством А. С. Пушкина.
Agniya Aleksandrovna Kuznetsova was a Russian Soviet writer.
She studied in the 8th grade when the pioneer newspaper "Young Leninist" published her first article. Perhaps it was this note that was destined to play a decisive role later, when the girl applied to the Faculty of Philology at Leningrad University. There, at the university, a twenty-year-old student, Kuznetsova, wrote her first stories, which were published in the collective collection "October" (1932).
After graduation, she worked in the editorial offices of pioneer and youth newspapers in Leningrad and Novosibirsk, then in the Irkutsk Radio Committee, in the editorial office of children's broadcasting. A close acquaintance with the life of the school helped her to better understand and feel the peculiarities of child psychology, to understand deeper into school problems. And when the almanac "New Siberia" published in 1939 her first story "In the Chulym taiga", published a year later as a separate book in Irkutsk, criticism spoke of Kuznetsova as a talented, original children's writer.