About the book: year / The note is an afterword to the essay by N. P. Makarov “Intimate Confession. An edifying tale with variations on “points of view,” published in the same issue of Sovremennik (1859, No. 11). Makarov’s “Intimate Confession,” a mediocre work in artistic terms, attracted Dobrolyubov’s attention as an everyday document. The material in “Confession,” against the author’s wishes, shows the decomposition of the nobility and exposes bourgeois morality.