About the book: year / Turgenev valued the book by S. T. Aksakov for its truthful display of Russian nature. But in its content, in terms of the range of issues raised by Turgenev, his article went far beyond the scope of the assessment of S. T. Aksakov’s book, which was noticed by the writer’s contemporaries. In particular, S. T. and K. S. Aksakov wrote to Turgenev about this. The first of them, according to him, read Turgenev’s review of “Notes of a Gun Hunter” “with true pleasure.” Nevertheless, at the end of January 1853, S. T. Aksakov reproached his reviewer: “Your letter to the publisher of Sovremennik is not a criticism of my book, but an excellent article about my book. However, I very much understand that if you had kept the nature of the criticism, your article would have come out, perhaps, not so interesting and somewhat dry».