The Town in a Snuffbox. The Scarlet Flower (Gorodok v Tabakerke)

Sergey Timofeyevich Aksakov was a famous Russian writer.

A scion of an ancient noble family, Aksakov undoubtedly had in childhood vivid impressions of the proud family consciousness of this distinguished lineage. The hero of his celebrated autobiography, his grandfather Stepan Mikhailovich, dreamed of his grandson precisely as a continuer of the “famous house of Shimon” — the fabulous Varangian, a nephew of the king of Norway, who came to Russia in 1027.

Sergey Timofeyevich, the son of Timofey Stepanovich Aksakov (1759–1832) and Maria Nikolayevna Zubova, daughter of the assistant to the Orenburg…

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