Polikushka, or, The Lot of a Wicked Court Servant by Leo Tolstoy

'Polikushka' exposes the hard features of peasant life. The tone of refined humor that aimed to ridicule the false and insincere in art appeared for the first time in his fiction. On this same high level of performance, he continued to write about the peasant and his relation to the landowner in brilliant sections of 'War And Peace' and 'Anna Karenina'.