It took another two years for him to see his second short story, "Artyomy Semyonovich Bervenkovsky", a homage to the so-called 'natural school' apparently written under the influence of Nikolai Gogol's "Dead Souls", published in the 1st volume of Count Vladimir Sollogub's "Yesterday and Today" almanac. The 2nd volume featured "Amena", a novella, described as an extract from a novel called "Stebelovsky" which remained unfinished. Belinsky responded negatively to this publication, describing the piece as "rather dull", and an "unfortunate manifestation of mental irritation picked from Chateaubriand" (meaning apparently "Les Martyrs", 1809).