I.A.Goncharov in the Memoirs of Contemporaries

Name Goncharova, one of the greatest masters of Russian realistic novel, is in line with Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky. Forever remain outstanding conquests of the XIX century Russian realism of his novels "Ordinary Story", "Oblomov", "Open", and the image of Oblomov - a classic type of world literature. Significant as his book of travel essays - "frigate" Pallada "," still has not lost its literary-historical and educational value.