He published his best-known work, "Seething Times", set in the northern Pale of Settlement against the background of the Polish Uprising of 1863, in three instalments between 1871 and 1873 in "Evreiskaia biblioteka". In the novel, young Westernized Jews were urged by the hero, Sarin, to abandon Polish orientation (after 500 years of unhappy experience with the Poles) and become Russians. The book was released as a book in 1875 under the title "Seething Times: The Novel of the Last Polish Uprising".