“To this day we have seen Mr. Pogodin in the dry field of historical research and scholarly criticism, we did justice to his knowledge, but did not think at all about his other talents. Suddenly Urania appears; We are in a hurry to read his two stories: The Beggar and As It Returns, So It Returns, and we admit frankly that for a long time we have not seen original Russian stories written with such poignancy, intricacy, lightness and entertainment. Knowledge of the world and Russian morals, and the human heart in general, constitute the inherent advantages of these stories, and the story is extremely sweet, playful or touching. The story The Beggar is written in the Russian folk style, or simply put in peasant language...”