From poems great russian poet's N.A. Nekrasov we can much learn about peasant children in Russia XIX century. Life their was very not an easy. Children early stood and helped parents in their heavy labour: fed animals, worked in the field, collected in the forest mushrooms and berries. About their interests, favourite games great and classes in free time written and great russian writer I.S. Turgenev. So, he bright described, how children loved after works to sit in the evening at a fire, telling terrible history about spirits and brownies.