A very unusual collection.Dostoevsky is very unusual.Dostoevsky is not only (and not so much) tragic, but ironic, funny, touching, and even sentimental.Dostoevsky's "small form" is a master of topical plots, comic situations and witty dialogues.Dostoevsky at the beginning of his literary career, before the Great Pentateuch."The village of Stepanchikovo and its inhabitants", "The Mistress", "Another man's wife and husband under the bed" – without these works it is impossible to understand Dostoevsky. After all, it was in them that those philosophical, moral and socio-psychological motives of creativity emerged, from which "The Brothers Karamazov", "The Idiot", "Demons" and other novels would later grow.