The article deals with the problems of Pisemsky’s prose in early period. It is composed of the four genres: novelette, story, short stories, novel. The stories and novelettes are two parts. They represented «Russian Europeans». Superfluous person represented in story. Byronic hero represented in novelette. Novelette are «point» in final, radical changes Position and opinion of hero. It need to start unpicking the poetical hero. A short story are three parts.