Russkaya Mysl
In 1882 Nemirovich-Danchenko published his first book of poems. In the 1880s and 1890s several of his novels and short stories came out (in "Russkaya Mysl", "Sever", "Nablyudatel" and many other magazines) in which the "world of financial capital" served as the major theme. These books dealt with bank crises, financial machinations, stock exchange speculations, money laundering, the shadowy side of the massive railway boom investments, and the murky world of concessions and joint-stock companies ("The Lights on Moors", 1903; "Slastyonov’s Millions", 1893; "Diamonds Trump!", 1894, "The Tsars of Stock Exchange", 1886). Highly dynamic and full of action, these novels were steeped with murder and suicide, had exuberant and preposterous finales, and were jeered by serious critics as totally farcical. This flaw was evident even more in Nemirovich-Danchenko's romantic fiction ("Two Diaries", 1901, "A Woman's Confession", 1889, "On Different Roads", 1894), using the adultery theme as a common leitmotif. Some of Nemirovich-Danchenko's novels, concerning "the small man's troubles" ("Wolves' Feast") found favor with the leftist press; "Russkaya Mysl" supported the author "full of deep love for human beings" and carrying "the faith in God's eternal light filling human souls."