Kozma Prutkov aside, Tolstoy wrote satirical verses under his own name, the best known of which was the Karamzin-inspired "History of the Russian State from Gostomysl to Timashev" (1868), a parody on Russian history that focused on the vicious characteristics of Russian monarchs. Another satirical poem, "The Dream of Councillor Popov", written in the summer of 1873, spread across Russia in hand-written form and became hugely popular. Both Leo Tolstoy and Ivan Turgenev expressed their delight at this personal swipe at the Interior Minister Pyotr Valuyev, and a mockery in general of a conservative bureaucrat trying to come across as a liberal. The poem came out in 1878, in Berlin, as a brochure, then six years later was reprinted by "Russkaya Starina" (No.12, 1884). 1867 saw the release of "Poems", the vast collection of Tolstoy's verse (all in all, 131 pieces), the only such compilation published in his lifetime.