About the book: year / “Letter from the Province” is one of the most interesting and important documents that came out of the circles of revolutionary democracy in the era of the fall of serfdom, an invaluable monument to Russian uncensored speech. The document is of paramount importance for understanding the complex set of problems associated with the relationship between the two centers of revolutionary democracy, namely: London, foreign, led by Herzen and Ogarev, and domestic, St. Petersburg, led by Chernyshevsky and Dobrolyubov. Both of them fought for the unification of the democratic forces of the country, for the elimination of autocracy and serfdom, but significantly disagreed with each other on the most important issues of revolutionary tactics.