russian state from the time, and the beginning of the centuries, continues through the russian empire, the soviet union, russia, and our guest yuri alexandrovich petrov, doctor of historical sciences, director of the institute of russian history of the russian academysciences kur, alexander hello. let's have a question. uh, for starters, throughout history, it was in russia or maybe not only in russia that very negative attitudes towards the rich are a characteristic of only our country or in all over the world, all my life i have always treated the rich negatively. and why does it happen, because everyone is poor or, uh, in general. there were some such periods in history when the majority of the population was rich and there was no one to relate to such negative ones. well, there has always been negativity. uh, fat-bellied kupchino is the hero of the nekrasov poem, who lives well in russia. here it was considered to him, that it is good to live as a fat belly, yes, who does not work himself, and everyone works for him, but still you know this one is not so unambiguous. i would answer to this question. in the very word rich in the russian word rich. after all, there is a root. god is a person who, to some extent , marks god . oh, he made him such