Severny Vestnik
The Marxist critic and philosopher Vladimir Shulyatikov described "The Collected Poems. 1889–1903" as the 'artistic failure' of the author who's found herself "confused by the life process." The conservative author Mikhail Menshikov, writing for "Severny Vestnik", admitted there were 'some lovely lines' in Gippius' poetry, but disliked the way they were buried under the barrage of dissonant, 'ugly and deranged, rudely deformed' stanzas.