In a review on the novel of Н. Н. Семенова brighter, than in other works of Добролюбова, non-acceptance was expressed by the critic-democrat of social psychology and morals of nobiliary society, сколком of that is this novel. Добролюбов with disapproval perceives the fact of writing of the Russian author in French language, in what a critic sees the display of eliteness, to incuriosity in a democratic reader. But especially revolts criticism is крепостническое attitude toward a woman, that the "aristocratic" novel of Семенова is saturated with.