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{{Short description|Short story by Leo Tolstoy}}
"'''Singing In The Village'''" (''"Песни на деревне"'') is a short story by [[Leo Tolstoy]] written in 1909 and published in 1910.<ref>{{cite book
| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xCl8AAAAIAAJ&dq=%22singing+in+the+village%22+tolstoy&pg=PA158
| page=158
| title=The Life of Tolstoy
| volume=1
| author=Pavel Biri︠u︡kov
| year=1911
| publisher=Cassell, limited
}}</ref>  While classified as a short story, translator and biographer [[Aylmer Maude]] described the piece as a sketch.<ref>{{cite book
| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KVmk4WgzFS8C&q=%22singing+in+the+village%22+tolstoy
| page=689
| title=The Life of Tolstoy
| volume=2
| author=Aylmer Maude
| year=1911
| publisher=Constable
}}</ref>  According to [[The Spectator]] in 1910, the story details "...the incidents of his daily life, his conversations with his village friends and with the tramps and beggars who gather at his door, and his reflections upon them."<ref>{{cite book
| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UnVMiz_izh0C&q=%22singing+in+the+village%22+tolstoy
| page=1707
| title=Classified Catalog of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh: 1902-1906. 2 v
| author=[[Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh]]
| year=1907
| publisher=Carnegie Library
}}</ref>
==History==
It was published as part of ''"Three Days in the Village, and Other Sketches"'', as translated by [[Louise Maude]] and Aylmer Maude.<ref>{{cite book
| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=onDctgAACAAJ
| title=Three Days in the Village, and Other Sketches
| translator=Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude
| author=Leo Tolstoy
| year=1910
| publisher=[[Vladimir Chertkov|Free Age Press]]
}}</ref>
==See also==
* [[Bibliography of Leo Tolstoy]]
* [[Three Days in the Village]]
==References==
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==External links==
* Original Text
** [http://www.revoltlib.com/?id=10600 ''Singing in the Village''], from RevoltLib.com
** [https://www.marxists.org/archive/tolstoy/1909/singing-in-the-village.html ''Singing in the Village''], from [[Marxists.org]]
** [https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/leo-tolstoy-singing-in-the-village ''Singing in the Village''], from TheAnarchistLibrary.org
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