Tolstoy's ideas, but has always preserved his independence.

His first work, a delightful fantasy, entitled "Makar's Dream," appeared in 1885.
Korolenko has been sent to Siberia several times, but now lives in Russia proper,[48] and publishes a high-class monthly journal.
Until quite recently opinion was divided as to whether Korolenko or Tchekoff was the more talented, and the coming "great author." As we shall see presently, that question seems to have been settled, and in part by Korolenko's friendly aid, in favor of quite another person.
Anton Pavlovitch Tchekoff (pseudonym "Tchekhonte," 1860) is the descendant of a serf father and grandfather.

His volumes of short stories, "Humorous Tales," "In the Gloaming," "Surly People," are full of humor and of brilliant wit.

His more ambitious efforts, as to length and artistic qualities, the productions of his matured talent, are "The Steppe," "Fires," "A Tiresome History," "Notes of an Unknown," "The Peasant," and so forth.
Still another extremely talented writer, who, unfortunately, has begun to produce too rapidly for his own interest, is Ignaty Nikolaevitch Potapenko (1856), the son of an officer in a Uhlan regiment, and of a Little Russian peasant mother.

His father afterwards became a priest--a very unusual change of vocation and class--and the future writer acquired intimate knowledge of views and customs in ecclesiastical circles, which he put to brilliant use later on.