The well-known writer Grigory Danilevsky (1829-1890) won the recognition of his contemporaries with works that vividly and uniquely recreate the life of the era, characterized by the dynamism of the narrative. The second volume included the novels "Will" and "New Places." In the novel "Will," the author explores the complex relationship between the provincial bureaucracy, landowners and the peasantry in Russia on the eve of the reform of 1861. The novel "New Places" is about a different vision of life, an emerging type of intelligent landowner who contradicts with representatives of the pre-reform nobility.