Отечественные записки
A University of Kharkiv alumnus, Bykov moved to Saint Petersburg in the early 1860s and started writing short stories, poems and bibliographical articles, published in "Syn Otechestva", "Russkiy Mir", "Iskra", "Otechestvennye Zapiski". Later Bykov edited "Delo" (1880), "Russkoye Bogatstvo" (1881-1900), "Vsemirnaya Illyustratsia" (literary section, 1891-1898), "Slovo" newspaper (1904-1905) and "Sovremennik" (1911).