By the will of fate, “Mountain Road” attracted much less attention than the long-suffering “Grozd”. Among those who responded to the publication of the book was a student of Nikolai Gumilev Vera Lurie and Julius Eichenwald, who devoted the review to two Syrian collections at once (of which he preferred the “Mount Way”) .. And Lurie and Eichenwald were more merciful to the novice poet than previous reviewers. Disadvantages of Poetry . They expressed confidence in his further development and creative growth: “Syrin’s poems do not give so much as they promise .. Now they are somehow overgrown with wordssometimes superfluous and heavy words; but as the sculptor only does that in a block of marble cuts off the superfluous, so the same process is mandatory for the word-giver. It seems that such a road lies ahead of Sirin and that, working on himself, he will achieve valuable creative results and on his poetic longitudes, poetic laconism, the desired artistic avarice, will prevail already accessible to him.” // Steering wheel. 1923. January 28 . C. 13). N. Melnikov . "Classic without retouching" .