“...Creations based on the life and customs of the common people have noticeably proliferated in all forms, and have already begun to form a bright and, let’s say, comforting feature of modern literature. Many new elements for the novel, story and comedy were discovered by gifted writers in this field; They introduced many original faces and physiognomies, belonging exclusively to the Russian world, and they managed to point out to us many hitherto unknown sources of the pathetic, passionate and comic...”