Literary memories

Since the first publication in 1892-1893. And to this day, the "literary memoirs" D.V. Grigorovich remain among the most famous works of memoir literature.
This is what Grigorovich himself wrote: “They asked me the task: to write memories. I set about them in April and still do not see the end, I can’t get out, I fight in them like a fly in a web ... While you are talking about myself with complete frankness, everything goes well: the frankness is not delayed by petty considerations, another thing, another thing, another thing, another thing As with that frankness you want to talk about others. You have to be three times hardened in shamelessness and rudeness like Ms. Golovacheva [Panaeva] in order to break everything that turns into the head from the shoulder, and not be shy about lies and slander when the memory refuses to give material. ”