Annales de la Patrie
In 1847–1849 Pleshcheev's poems along with some prose, started to appear in magazines, notably, "Otechestvennye Zapiski". Full of Aesopian language, some of them have still been credited as the first-ever reaction to the French Revolution of 1848 in the Russian literature. In an 1888 letter to Chekhov Pleshcheev remembered: