“...If only we could form a society of young, active people, gifted with true abilities; if these people - with a sense of their dignity, but without any arrogance characteristic only of low souls - completely devoted themselves to literature, united their talents and, at the altar of beneficent muses, promised to zealously spread everything elegant, not for their own glory, but out of noble and selfless love to good; if this dearest dream of mine ever turned into reality, then with joy, with heartfelt joy, I would retire into the darkness of the unknown, leaving this venerable society to publish a magazine worthy of the favor of the Russian public. In anticipation of this, we will do what we can...”