Severny Vestnik
In 1890 Pertsov published his first poems in Saint Petersburg newspapers "Nedelya" (Week) and "Novosti" (News) to some favourable reviews, including the one by Afanasy Fet. In 1892 he became friends with Nikolai Mikhaylovsky and joined the staff of "Russkoye Bogatstvo", then a liberal narodnik's magazine, as a head of the bibliography department. The infatuation with narodnichestvo, though, was short-lived and a year later Pertsov quit. In 1894, engaged by his new friends, Valery Bryusov, Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Fyodor Sologub, he started to contribute to "Severny Vestnik", the Russian Symbolist movement's early tribune.