my interlocutors today, the head of the nabokov center of the institute of russian literature of the russian academy of sciences, pushkin house, tatyana olegovna panomareva, and literary critic, journalist, researcher of nabokov’s work. igor kirienkov. igor, i have already put on my glasses, this means that the middle of our program has come, at this time the presenter, that is, me, dmitry bak, always does one of three, or i show some old book from my library, but this after all, it’s not an old book, i’ve already shown it to you, but it’s only a quarter of a century old, either i read and comment on some poem, or a quote from prose, i read, here everything somehow works out together, because i... now i’ll read my favorite fragment, we remember that the roman gift begins, well, in the broad sense of the word , it begins with how fyodor konstantinovich godunov cherdyntsev reads his collection of poems, rereads it, understands his significance, directly quotes himself, or rather, well, as if in a novel, we see these poems written by him, so he rises to the pinnacle of pride,