 "The Snow Storm" still benefited from his high reputation and was seen by its early reviewers less as prose as such, more as poetry in prose in its tonalities and even in its structure; Turgenev was as usual carried away, and Sergey Aksakov agreed, finding the description of the blizzard the most realistic he had ever read.Herzen thought it marvellous and Alexander Druzhinin wrote in the "Biblioteka dlya chteniya" that there had been nothing quite like it since the days of Pushkin and Gogol.In "Modern Language Studies" 1987, Sydney Schultze writes