Lozynskyi's proposal was sharply criticized, including by the Ruthenian Triad (Markiian Shashkevych's pamphlet Azbuka and Abecadło, 1836), and by D. Zubrytskyi (Apology of the Cyrillic or Ruthenian Alphabet, Polish: "«Apologia cyryliki czyli Azbuki ruskiej»"), who was the first to oppose Lozynskyi, and J. Levytskyi ("Response to the proposal to introduce the Polish alphabet in Ruthenian writing", Polish:"Odpowiedź na zdanie o zaprowadzeniu abecadła polskiego do piśmiennictwa ruskiego", 1834). Shashkevych's pamphlet played a key role in ending the first "alphabetical war." Lozynskyi's responses to criticism were rejected by the censor, and were first published by O. Makovei in 1903.