“The famous work of Gervinus “Shakespeare” is currently being translated into Russian by Mr. Timofeev. So far the first volume has been published. The book of Gervinus is, without a doubt, a very respectable book and for our criticism, which cannot be accused of deep knowledge and understanding of Shakespeare, even very useful. On the deserts and Thomas is a nobleman. If we wanted to sing in unison with our much-learned literature, then we would limit ourselves to enthusiastic praise of the work of Gervinus, even the well-known truth that Shakespeare is a great poet would be confirmed by a quotation from his venerable book - unfortunately, We believe that Russian thought has the right to independence and therefore we will treat the work of the multi-learned professor critically...” The work is given in the pre-reform alphabet.