Nicholas P. Vaslef writes that the mentioned inspirations were Mercier's L'An deux mille quatre cent quarante, rêve s'il en fut jamais (1770) and Julius von Voss' Ini: Ein Roman aus dem ein und swanzigsten Jahrhundert (1810).
[1] In 1828 Bulgarin wrote a similar novel, A Scene from Private Life in 2028 A.D. (Сцена из частной жизни в 2028 году, от Рожд.
Suddenly a strong wind capsizes the yawl, the protagonist falls overboard from it and loses the consciousness, to awake exactly 1000 years later, in 2824.
[1] Leland Fetzer noted that while the novel has several glaring errors, such as aircraft flapping their wings like bats, it was "remarkably prescient".
[4] Bulgarin describes prefabricated buildings, steam-powered cranes, central heating and electric lighting, self-propelled transport, submarines for harvesting seafood, underwater plantations with underwater dwellings, lie detectors and emotion readers (precursors of dystopic Zamyatin's and Orwell's ideas), X-ray apparatus, telephone, copier machine, and even mechanical poetry and prose writers.