This book is a fairly large collection of articles, which—after reading—you can piece together a clear picture of Russian life in the second half of the 19th century. Most of the writer’s recollections are autobiographical. The author writes about events and people he had the chance to work with and communicate with. And the interesting people he encountered along the way were numerous. Thus, the book includes separate chapters of memories about M. E. Saltykov, N. G. Chernyshevsky, V. M. Garshin, and other outstanding writers. Researchers and biographers of P. A. Rovinsky, P. P. Maevsky, M. A. Antonovich, P. L. Lavrov, and especially N. G. Chernyshevsky, have long been making use of the information Panteleev left us in his work.