About the book: year / "My personal acquaintance with V. G. Belinsky began in St. Petersburg, in the summer of 1843; but his name became known to me much earlier. Soon after the appearance of his first critical articles in “Rumor” and “Telescope” (1836–1839), rumors began to circulate in St. Petersburg about him as a very lively, ardent person who did not retreat from anything and attacked “everything” - everything in the literary world, of course…»