They included the novellas The Onager (1841) and Actaeon (1842), the novel Mama's Boy (1845), essays, satires, and short stories.

In 1845 Dostoyevsky read his first novel Poor Folk to a literary gathering organized by Panaev and his wife.

[3] In 1847, together with Nekrasov, Panaev took over Sovremennik, making it into a popular literary magazine and a financial success.

[1] Between 1851 and 1861, under the pseudonym "The New Poet", he published his monthly surveys of journalism and of life in St Petersburg in Sovremennik.

Other works by Panaev include the novel Lions in the Provinces (1852), the novella Relatives (1847), and the essay cycle Knowledge of Fops (1854–57).