La Pensée russe
On April 20, 1884, "Otechestvennye Zapiski" were closed much to the distress of Uspensky who later gave the journal credit for helping him through hardships. In April 1885 he made a voyage to Kiev, Odessa, Rostov-on-Don, Essentuki and Kislovodsk. This year his "Sketches from Russian Life" appeared in "Russkaya Mysl", and "Timelessness" in "Russkiye Vedomosti". A series of essays called "Of This and That" (Кой про что) started his relationship with "Severny Vestnik" in 1886. After another trip to the South Uspensky signed a lucrative contract with the publisher I.M. Sibiryakov who bought the rights to all of his work for 18.5 thousand rubles. In the late 1886 the final, 8th volume of the Collected Works by Uspensky came out under the old contract.