The collection of the house-museum contains the first edition of “Ural Stories” by Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak. It is located in the room of brothers Nikolay and Vladimir Mamins, inside a folding desk. The writer said about this book: “This is my best work”.

“Ural Stories” were first published in two parts: the first volume was published in 1888 and the second in 1889. The cycle was published by Alexander Ponomarev, a former classmate of Mamin-Sibiryak at the Perm Theological Seminary.

The first volume included essays and stories “In Bad Souls”, “On the Shikhan”, “Bashka”, “Parent Blood”, “Thunderstorm”, “Correction of Dr. Osokin”, “Flight”, “First Students”. The second volume of “Ural Stories” includes essays “Fighters”, “Zolotukha”, “From the Ancient Urals”, “Forest” and “Poison”.

Critics praised “Ural Stories”. The magazine “Russian Thought” [“Russkaya Mysl”] considered the text a great success of the writer.

The newspaper “Yekaterinburg Week” [“Yekaterinburgskaya Nedelya”] published a review by Boris Kotelyansky. He noted that “D. N. Mamin enjoyed in the literary world a well-deserved reputation as a talented and prolific fiction writer”. The author of the review singled out particularly successful stories of the first volume — “In Bad Souls”, “Bashka”, and “First Students”.

In 1890, the authoritative literary journal “Herald of Europe” [“Vestnik Evropy”] published its review:

In 1899, the printing house printed the second edition of “Ural Stories”. It included the same stories and essays, but now they were three volumes instead of two. Their order remained unchanged.