"All Russian comedians are students or descendants of Gogol, and Argus in this sense is no exception. We, his contemporaries, his writings give him mental rest, allow us to forget, they entertain us, and only in rare cases do we realize that behind these deceptively superficial, light, quick sketches lurks acute psychological insight. However, in the future, for a person who would set himself the goal of studying and understanding how Russian people lived on a foreign land for decades, Argus feuilletons will turn out to be an indispensable testimony and document"