Fortunately for him, at this most trying time, after the failure of his book, in place of the questions of Dissent, our American friends, the Samara Famine, the Exhibitions, and Spiritualism, the Slavonic question – which had previously only smouldered in Society – came to the front, and Koznyshev, who had previously been one of the promoters of that cause, devoted himself to it entirely.
Afortunadamente para él, en aquel tiempo que le fue tan doloroso en virtud del poco éxito de su libro, la cuestión de los disidentes vino a sustituir a la de los amigos americanos, a la del hambre en Samara y a la del espiritismo, la del problema eslavo, que antes apenas se trataba en sociedad; y Sergio Ivanovich, ya antes estimador de este asunto, ahora se consagró a él enteramente.