"One of the most outstanding representatives of the female gender, a woman unparalleled in the strength of her spirit and talent, a name that now belongs to history... Georgia Sandi had enchanted Russian writers. Her works appeared in Russia in the mid-1830s... I was sixteen years old, if I remember correctly, when I first read a novella that remains one of her most important early works. I cannot forget the fever that tormented me all night from reading it. I will not be wrong if I say, from what I remember, that Georgia Sandi occupied the first place among the writers whose echoes of success reached us from Europe. Not even Dickens, who became known in Russia at the same time, could conquer the audience like she did... Georgia Sandi is not a scholar but an author who managed to brilliantly shape an era of a happier humanity. She dedicated her life to the pursuit of this chimera, because she believed in it and resurrected it within herself. It is the privilege of great souls, those who deeply love humanity, to preserve this faith until the end." (F. Dostoevsky)