About the book: 2017 / "The prevailing opinion is that just as it is pointless to delve into statues standing in squares, it is also useless to open books that have been researched, studied to the last word hundreds of thousands of people from dozens of previous generations.” Arguing with this observation of his, Roman Senchin shares his impressions of reading the poems of Gabriel Derzhavin, articles by Vissarion Belinsky, prose of Pisemsky, Leonid Andreev, Mikhail Sholokhov, Andrei Platonov, and compares their work with the works of our contemporaries - Naum Korzhavin, Valentin Rasputin, Boris Ekimov, Zakhara Prilepin, Sergei Shargunov, Denis Gutsko, Anna Kozlova.