ekaterina evgenievna dmitrieva, corresponding member of the russian academy of sciences, head of the classical literature of the institute. my dear teacher palovich vyazimsky once said or repeats that in russian national literature there are three giants, not just a genius, but a giant, and he says that this is a unique situation, since in national literatures, at least european ones, there is either one person or one book, well, for the english it’s shakespeare, for the spaniards it’s don quixote and so on, so in russian literature in one century there are three giants, as yuri pavlovich says, dostoevsky, tolstoy is half. chekhov, because chekhov is a playwright on a global scale, how much are you ready to agree with this assessment? well, probably, if we talk about let's start with the director, i beg your pardon, no, no, this is it, i’m violating, thank you, well, if we talk about the world taboo about ranks, about the hierarchy that has been established in the modern world view of russian literature. then this is so, undoubtedly, but this hierarchy, it still does not quite coinci