The collection of works by the famous Russian writer M. N. Zagoskin (1789-1852) includes his "small prose": the novels "Unequal Marriage," "Evening on Khopra," stories and essays from the cycle "Moscow and Muscovites." In the memoirs of contemporaries (S. T. Aksakov, Zagoskin-son, M. A. Dmitriev, etc.), the peculiar personality of M. N. Zagoskin is revealed to the reader.