"Literary little things the last year" is the programmatic article of Добролюбова, defining with maximum possible in the censorial-constabulary terms of this pore a clearness and plenitude of position of revolutionary democracy on the new stage of social and political and literary fight. This new stage was sharply designated in connection with completion in the higher state machine of the first turn of preparatory measures to peasant reform, when a question was especially intensifyed about forms and sizes of buying squire earth back, subject to the transmission by the freed serf.