About the book: year / With an ironic mention, in the last lines of the review, of Turgenev, who was the first to proclaim “the idea of ​​a beautiful landowner waiting under a bush for a beautiful landowner” , Saltykov puts A. A. Brianchaninov among the epigones of Turgenev’s style. It is characteristic that Turgenev, who, however, often exaggerated the talents of beginning writers before, having met Brianchaninov in the mid-70s, showed interest in his work, recommended his works for publication in the "Bulletin of Europe" and even wrote a laudatory preface to his "Russian Folk fairy tales in verse»