 "Poor Folk" was released on 15 January 1846 in the "St Petersburg Collection" almanac and became a commercial success.Dostoevsky felt that his military career would endanger his now flourishing literary career, so he wrote a letter asking to resign his post.Shortly thereafter, he wrote his second novel, "", which appeared in the journal "Notes of the Fatherland" on 30 January 1846, before being published in February.