"When Garshin read from his works in St. Petersburg, he managed to say out loud only the title of his most famous work, "The Scarlet Flower," and the audience went wild in ecstasy for twenty minutes straight. Garshin infected the intelligentsia with his madness, we all went crazy for him with cult admiration" R. Bibikov "Garshin is the best young writer of our time next to Chekhov" Lev Tolstoy "Since his first book, I have been amazed by his absolute originality and unquestionable talent. As an adult writer in love with his craft, I am delighted to discover how many continue: you are one of those" Ivan Turgenev "Garshin has an artistic temperament, a subtle understanding of life, of the individual and the universal, there is truth in him, restraint, simplicity, a sense of the beauty of forms, and therefore, the greatest originality" Anton Chekhov