Бедные люди
The almanac, aiming to bring the readership as close to the real life in Russia as it was possible (by exposing "all the dark corners of our social life, and all the hidden mechanisms of our existence," as Nekrasov put it), became the triumph for the "natural school". This publication, along with the 1845's "Saint Petersburg Collection" (the latter featuring among other works, the "Poor Folk", Dostoyevsky's debut) are seen as precursors of Nekrasov's "Sovremennik".