About the book: year / "When compiling a list of Russian literature of the 18th and 19th centuries, you can follow the path of Martha, who cares about many things, and the path of Mary, who chose the good part. I choose the first path because it seems to me to be dictated by the historical moment. Our entire past is presented to the judgment of generations following us, people very different from us, because Russian history has not seen a greater revolution than we are experiencing for at least two hundred years (since Peter the Great), or even three hundred years (the Time of Troubles)…»