S. Karenin's stories "Bright Holiday", "Fantastic Plans of Minai", "Union" are included in his cycle "Stories about the Parashkinites", written in 1879–1880. Most of the cycle was published in the journal Otechestvennye zapiski in the same years. The story “Bright Holiday” was published only in 1887 in the newspaper “Russian Vedomosti” No. 221. “Stories about the Parashkinites” could not be published as a separate book due to the prohibition of the censorship committee. Even in his Collected Works of 1890–1891, S. Karonin did not dare to include the entire cycle “Stories about the Parashkinites” (the stories “Bright Holiday” and “Union” were not included there).