 The "Rassvet" (Sunrise) anthology came as a result, featuring poems by A.Bakulin, S.Derunov and D.Zharov among others.In 1875, he became a member of the Russian Literature Society (nominated by Fyodor Buslayev, and supported by Leo Tolstoy).His next project, a literary magazine exclusively for authors from the lower classes, failed to materialize.