About the book: 2020 / Collection of sketches from 2009 discussing issues deleted from my “Phantasmagoria”: what is the reason for the crisis of the Russian World? Who are we, Russians, and what are we like? What lies behind the usual “mystery of the Russian soul”? Why did we allow the collapse of a great power, choosing poverty and contempt as our lot? What is our national character and what is it - the state interests of Russia?