“I read “On the Eve” with enthusiasm, but it shocked me unpleasantly... It is clear that now, with a greatly changed spirit of society, with an open desire for progress, moral and historical questions are making their way everywhere, the voice of sincere love for benefit, poetry speaks of high activity, and criticism often takes on a more historical than artistic character. Even in those critical articles where one can see a deep understanding of the elegant and one can hear an ardent love for the poetic, even in them, what is modern or not modern Russian is in the foreground...”