 "Its irresistible.I just can’t help reading you this… and Lev Nikolayevich was beginning to recite "Popov’s Dream", causing occasional outbursts of laughter", P.A.Sergienko remembered.In November 1875 the recital of "Popov's Dream" was banned from being performed at the evening commemorating Aleksey Tolstoy, organized by the Russian Literary Fund.