The Russian-language debut of prose by Hubert Crackenthorpe, one of the "young corpses" of Victorian literature.

His last book, "Vignettes" (1896), is a fragmented travelogue of a decadent aesthete, combining the observant yet sympathetic perspective of a typical English traveler with a rich, densely alliterative writing in the tradition of French "poetry in prose."

The book opens with a preface by the renowned connoisseur of Victorian literary rarities, musician, poet, and publisher David Tibet (Current 93, Durto Press), kindly written especially for this publication.