It was in those days that he sent the manuscript to Stepan Shevyryov, the well-known critic who at the time worked for Moskvityanin and who advised the author to re-write the novel.
Stepan Petrovich Shevyryov (Степа′н Петро′вич Шевырё′в, October 30 (18), 1806, Saratov, Russian Empire, - May 20 (8), 1864, Paris, France) was a conservative Russian literary historian and poet, a virulent critic of "the rotting West", and leading representative of the Official Nationality theory.
Stepan Levitsky | Stepan Bandera | Stepan Makarov | Stepan Krasovsky | Alfred Stepan | Stepan Topal | Stepan Shevyryov | Stepan Khilkov | Stepan Khalturin | Stepan Balmashov |