The first collections of poems by Vladimir Nabokov (V.) Criticism was very low. The main blow came from the collection "Grozd" .. Reviewers - Alexander Bahrach, Konstantin Mochulsky - accused the young poet of creative immaturity and imitation (primarily A.) Fetu and A. Block), highlighting as the main drawback of his lyrics "a purely external approach to the world, the poverty of internal symbolism, the absence of genuine creative fire" (Gleb Struve). “Sirin’s poems have a great past and no future” (Konstantin Mochulsky) such was the harsh sentence of critics . Only one reviewer (Vladimir Amfiterov-Kadashev, Sirin's comrade in literary association "Brotherhood of the Round Table") gave an absolutely positive response to the already rather plucked and beaten "Grozd" .. N. Melnikov . "Classic without retouching" .