For what it is - a post-humorously published unfinished work written by a woman in the early 20th century - this is truly great. It's a down-to-earth, detailed, and loving description of peasant life in the Russian Empire. The scope of the work is quite narrow (basically just the villages belonging to the author's father) and the author is very clearly not a professional ethnographer. Still, I found the writing refreshing and the information invaluable.