Poor Folk
In the mid-1840s, Grigorovich, now a journalist, specializing in sketches for "Literaturnaya Gazeta" and theatre feuilletons for "Severnaya Ptchela", renewed his friendship with Dostoyevsky who in 1846 read to him his first novel "Poor Folk". Greatly impressed, Grigorovich took the manuscript to Nekrasov, who promptly published it.