A message is written Тургеневым on purpose to bring in the contribution to the matter of practical preparation of liberation of peasants in Russia. He so characterized the moods of that time in a letter to Л. Н. to Tolstoy from January, 17/29 1858 : I "will not tell you about a that question that to you, probably, already ears прожужжал| but I assure you, he occupies us here how hardly not more than all of you being in place| every information is accepted with an avidity, to the rumours and there is not an end спорам. I wrote a memorial also, sent it| a word, all of us was twirled, as a squirrel is in a wheel". In a day Тургенев reported and П. В. Анненкову about "serious enough" and "not quite for him to usual" work, that "touches a question, occupying all Russia" now.