 Dostoevsky was accused of reading works by Belinsky, including the banned "Letter to Gogol", and of circulating copies of these and other works.Antonelli, the government agent who had reported the group, wrote in his statement that at least one of the papers criticised Russian politics and religion.Dostoevsky responded to these charges by declaring that he had read the essays only "as a literary monument, neither more nor less"; he spoke of "personality and human egoism" rather than of politics.