“It cannot be said that attempts to do this were very successful. The reason for their unsatisfactoryness partly lies in the fact that Count Tolstoy’s talent is rapidly developing, and almost every new work reveals new features in him. Of course, everything that anyone would say about Gogol after “Mirgorod” would turn out to be insufficient after “The Inspector General,” and the judgments made about Mr. Turgenev, as the author of “Andrei Kolosov” and “Khory and Kalinich”, had to be taken into account. changed and supplemented in many ways when his “Notes of a Hunter” appeared, just as these judgments turned out to be insufficient when he wrote new stories, distinguished by new merits...”