Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovsky was popular with readers during his lifetime. He became famous not only as a writer, but also as an engineer, public figure and traveler. The famous works of N. Garin-Mikhailovsky are "Grandmother", "Grandmother Stepanida", "In the estate of landowner Yarischeva", "Vallnek-Valnovsky", "Variant", "Veronika", "Genius", "Two moments".