Tsarist Russia? What? I’m saying he’s decent for how much he’s churned out, but he’s hardly anywhere near being on the level of some more famous fellow Western authors like Stephenie Meyer of Twilight fame, or EL James of Fifty shades of Grey. I mean perhaps if you distilled the better parts of his works he’s like an amateur JK Rowling (author of Harry Potter). If I was being generous I might even say he was inspired by Hunger games, but eeeh, he’s still not that good, but I do offer him leeway in that he tried and as he’s no longer with us, one can’t blame him for not being able to improve. If he was still around today I’d even be tempted to think AI had written some of that stuff.