sentences:  In January 1864 he started contributing to "Russkoye Slovo" ("At Night", "The Nameless One", "In the Country", "Sketches from the Life of an Official").A year later his stories started to appear in "Iskra" ("Our Humble Place", "The Stranger") and "Sovremennik" ("Village Encounters") which awarded him with a 110 ruble yearly grant.In 1866, after the closure of "Sovremennik", the first collection of Uspensky's short stories came out in Saint Petersburg.