is a must read, yaglan patnikov, my guest is the writer andrei gelasimov and we will discuss nikolai leskovs stories. andrey, here. becomes famous throughout st. petersburg society in general throughout russia, but these were the most important people in st. petersburg society, they probably created this opinion, what was liskov’s reputation, what was the opinion of modern literary society about him, i know that he survived bullying, you know, it’s worth talking about this bullying separately, because yes, from his own memories, from his letters to his publishers, we absolutely see that he was subjected to bullying, in particular at the beginning of his career for the fact that he spoke about... against the nihilists, accusing them of some fires there, was too conservative, yes, he was too conservative for the liberal and radical public, and as he claims, he was subjected to serious attacks, because of which he could not even published nowhere, and so on and so forth, but in one of soltykov shchedrin’s essays, i was surprised to read that all the attacks were by mr. stebnitsky, it was his p