"Russkii pisatel", istorik i kraeved Mikhail Ivanovich Pyliaev sniskal populiarnost" ne tol"ko u svoikh sovremennikov. Ego knigi, napolnennye liubopytnymi siuzhetami, s interesom chitaiutsia i segodnia. "Zamechatel"nye chudaki i originaly" - eto sobranie kur"eznykh rasskazov o kharakterakh rossiiskikh liudei i prichudakh byta aristokratii v XVIII i pervoi polovine XIX stoletiia. Obychai, moda, igry, uveseleniia predstavitelei raznykh obschestvennykh sloev dopolniaiut kartinu russkoi zhizni proshedshikh vekov v knige "Staroe zhit"e".. .. "