With the story “Andrei Kolosov” Turgenev not only settled scores with his own youthful romanticism and enthusiastic daydreaming; he was also involved in the general struggle against dilapidated but still tenacious romantic traditions. Naturally, Turgenev’s new, although in many ways still immature, story aroused Belinsky’s approval: ““Andrei Kolosov” by Mr. T. L. is an extremely remarkable story with a beautiful idea: the author discovered in it a lot of intelligence and talent, and at the same time and showed that he did not want to do even half of what he could have done, which is why a good story came out where a wonderful story should have come out.”