In the period of realism, interest in the peasantry is becoming more pronounced. In many European literatures, peasants became important figures in literary works. In Croatia, this situation is even more interesting if we consider the situation in which they found themselves at the time. At the end of the nineteenth century, Ban Khuen Héderváry was in power and had no mercy on anyone, especially not on the peasants. As a result, there is an agrarian crisis, the collapse of cooperatives, the sale of land and forests and large migrations to the city. The literature of realism is known for the moral tasks that help the people by pointing out the biggest problems and injustices of modern society in which the peasants were in the worst position. The pre-realist August Šenoa already sees the problems of Croatian society and Croatian literature in his article Our literature (Naša književnost) where he explicitly says that "Until the peasant is more educated (Šenoa 1996: 8-9)", among other things, there will be no progress in Croatian society. After Šenoa's time, a completely new, young generation of Croatian realists appeared, dealing with Croatian society and, among other things, the problems of the peasants. Some of the most important and best Croatian writers in general are being formed, who are writing on the model of European realists. Peasants were often portrayed in opposition to people from the city where more often they would be a source of goodness and all right, and the question arises as to whether this has anything to do with trying to gain a large peasant readership?