Nyorera kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Kutanga kwema1860 kwakaona kufarirwa kwaMaykov kuchikwira: aigara achiita paruzhinji uye aive nemabasa ake akaburitswa nemagazini anotungamira eRussia. Pakati pemakore ekuma1860, akafambazve akananga kumusasa wevaichengeta, ndokugara imomo kwoupenyu hwake hwose. Akashora vechiduku vakanyanyisa, uye akaratidza kubatana nemashoko aMikhail Katkov ezvematongerwe enyika pamusoro pekumukira kwePoland
uye nhevedzano yenyika yeRussia yose. Mune nhetembo dzakadai se "Minda" (iyo yakashandisa chimiro chaGogol cheRussia sechikwata chevatatu, asi zvakare yakaratidza kutyisa kwehupfumi huri kubuda), "Niva" uye "The Sketch" akarumbidza shanduko dza1861, zvichikonzera kutsoropodzwa kwakasimba kubva kuna Saltykov-Schedrin naNikolay Dobrolyubov. Achigamuchira dzidziso yePochvennichestvo, Maykov akaswedera pedyo naApollon Grigoriev, Nikolai Strakhov, naFyodor Dostoyevsky; ushamwari hwake neyekupedzisira hwakaratidza kuva hwakasimba uye hunogara.