The collection includes two large sections: the first of them presents the works of writers grouped around the Sovremennik magazine in the first half of the 1850s: A. V. Druzhinin, N. A. Nekrasov, I. S. Turgenev, M. N. Longinova. The second section fully reproduces the most significant collection of Russian obscene poetry of the 19th century, “Between Friends. Funny and piquant jokes of Russian domestic poets,” which was based on poems by the satirist P. V. Schumacher.