Notes from Underground
The first two combined numbers of "Epoch", for January and February, 1864, were published in March, 1864, containing the opening chapters of "Notes from Underground" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. "Notes from Underground" took up the first four issues of the magazine. His story "The Crocodile" was published in the last issue. "The Crocodile", taken as an attack on Nikolay Chernyshevsky, and his article "Mr -bov and the Question of Art", criticising the views of Nikolay Dobrolyubov, created considerable controversy between Dostoyevsky and Russian liberals.