About the book: year / The essay reflects the impressions caused by Uspensky’s first trip abroad in 1872. Uspensky went abroad as a correspondent for Otechestvennye Notes, for which he intended to write a series of Paris Notes as a result of the trip. <…> Ouspensky’s realism was clearly evident in the essay. The writer managed to understand the inconsistency of capitalist development and at the same time remain free from the idealization of patriarchal remnants, from the denial of the historical progressiveness of capitalism in comparison with serfdom, characteristic of the populists..