“...if we are based on the characterization that Evgeniy Solovyov gave himself, one could only welcome him, be amazed at the unforgivable maliciousness of his opponents and rejoice that in his person Russian literary criticism has made such brilliant successes... But, unfortunately, the matter the situation is far from being as Mr. Soloviev tries to imagine him: upon closer examination of his critical research, it turns out that he does not open new paths in science, that he does not add anything valuable to the work of his predecessors, that he can be called an innovator only in one sense : he chose such a simplified way of analyzing literary phenomena, which has not yet been practiced by any of the Russian critics who valued their name and their activities in any way...”