'Do not be ashamed of your tears and mark my words,... what Grigorovich has just read, will have enormous bearing not just on the state of our literature, but on the nation in general,' Panayev pronounced, addressing the teenager.

[2] Originally Anton Goremyka ended with a scene of riot, serf peasants setting manager Nikita Fyodorovich's house on fire and pushing the hated tyrant into it.

[6] Anton Goremyka was included into the list of the "most dangerous publications of the year," alongside articles by Belinsky and Hertzen, by the Special Literature and Publishing Committee.

[Belinsky] recognised in them the dawning of a new era when young gifted authors would start to reveal the truth, particularly about the realities of our rural life," Pavel Annenkov wrote in his memoirs.

"[9] Alexander Hertzen remembered how Anton Goremyka had awakened in him deep patriotic feelings and made him look closer at the life of common people in Russia.

This stark story of a peasant man prosecuted by a burmister whom he'd compiled a report on, dictated by fellow villagers... seemed especially harsh in the atmosphere of the revolutionary movement in Italy, under the sweet caressing touch of Mediterranean air.

"[10] According to Chernyshevsky, "the early works by Grigorovich and Turgenev have prepared the readership for the scathing satire of Saltykov-Shchedrin, by sawing the seeds of a profound notion, that to start moving towards prosperity Russia should learn to see itself in true light first.