He has been followed by turgenev, who left us some prose poems which he called Senilia.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
He had read his Dostoevski and turgenev; he had looked at those books of Russian impressions that deal in nothing but snow, ikons, and the sublime simplicity of the Russian peasant.
"The Dark Forest"
Hugh Walpole
Thus the germs of the past had expanded triumphantly in the work of Gogol, and the way was now clear for turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Goncharov, Ostrovsky, and Pisemsky, who, while enlarging the range and perfecting the methods of the naturalistic school, conquered for their native literature the place which it has definitely assumed in the world.
"Contemporary Russian Novelists"
Serge Persky