《被伤害与侮辱的人们》是他的重要作品之一。小说描写了资产阶级冒险家瓦尔科夫斯基对"小人物"尤其是两个弱女子：管家女儿娜达莎和他的私生女涅莉的迫害以及一手造成的两个家庭的悲剧。(Being Bullied and Insulted is one of his important works. The novel describes the persecution of the bourgeois adventurer Valkovsky on the "little people", especially two weak women: the housekeeper daughter Natasha and his illegitimate daughter Nellie as well as the indirect tragedies of the two families.)