In December 1910 Bunin and Muromtseva made another journey to the Middle East, then visited Ceylon; this four-month trip inspired such stories as "Brothers" ("Братья") and "The Tsar of Tsars City" ("Город царя царей"). On his return to Odessa in April 1911, Bunin wrote "Waters Aplenty" ("Воды многие"), a travel diary, much lauded after its publication in 1926. In 1912 the novel "Dry Valley" (Суходол) came out, his second major piece of semi-autobiographical fiction, concerning the dire state of the Russian rural community. Again it left the literary critics divided: social democrats praised its stark honesty, many others were appalled with the author's negativism.